Chapter 4 Medicolegal and Ethical Issues

Question 1

Patient’s wishes regarding the type of health and welfare treatment they do or do not wish to receive should they later lose capacity. In case where life-sustaining treatment is being refused, this must be in writing.

Answer 1

advance decision

Question 2

A crime and a tort resulting from an act by which any person directly, negligently, or possibly recklessly, causes another to fear immediate bodily harm or invasion of bodily security.

Answer 2

assault

Question 3

The right to direct own’s care

Answer 3

autonomy

Question 4

A crime and a tort (or delict) involving unwanted touching or the infliction of unlawful violence by the defendant against the claimer. This includes even the slightest force. and need to result in actual harm.

Answer 4

battery

Question 5

The relationship between cause and effect.

Answer 5

causation

Question 6

An action instituted by a private individual or corporation against another private individual or corporation.

Answer 6

civil claim

Question 7

Compliance with or deliberate approval of a course of action. It is not legally binding if obtained by coercion, fraud, undue influence, or duress.

Answer 7

consent

Question 8

An action instituted by the state against a private individual for violation of the criminal law.

Answer 8

criminal prosecution

Question 9

The court’s estimated compensation in financial terms for the detriment of injury sustained by the claimant.

Answer 9

damages

Question 10

Obligation of a person to compensate another who has suffered loss as a result of the wrongful actions of that person.

Answer 10

delict

Question 11

And Individual appointed by the Court of Protection to make health care decisions should a patient lose capacity and not have a lasting power of attorney.

Answer 11

deputy

Question 12

Doctrine under which necessary and urgent life-saving treatment may be administered to patients in their best interest in the absence of their ability to give consent.

Answer 12

doctrine of necessity

Question 13

An act that is due by legal or moral obligation.

Answer 13

duty

Question 14

When one can see that one’s actions are likely to cause harm to another person.

Answer 14

duty of care

Question 15

The philosophy of right and wrong.

Answer 15

ethics

Question 15

The philosophy of right and wrong.

Answer 15

ethics

Question 16

A patient’s agreement to, for example, treatment, after being informed of the nature of the disease, the risk and benefits of the proposed treatment, alternative treatment or the choice of no treatment at all.

Answer 16

informed consent

Question 17

The appointment of a proxy decision-maker (who need not be a relative) to make decisions about care and treatment should a patient lose capacity.

Answer 17

lasting power of attorney

Question 18

Legal obligation or duty.

Answer 18

liability

Question 19

Pertaining to conscience, conduct, and character.

Answer 19

morality

Question 20

Failure to perform to the ordinary objective standard of conduct expected of a reasonable person performing that skill or art.

Answer 20

negligence

Question 21

The limits to a practice that are imposed by the regulatory professional body.

Answer 21

scope of practice

Question 22

A measure to which others conform or by which the accuracy of quality of others is judged.

Answer 22

standard

Question 23

That which would be expected from a reasonable person with similar training in the same or similar circumstances.

Answer 23

standard of care

Question 24

A wrongful act that gives rise to a civil claim.

Answer 24

tort