Craig Ch 7 Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sonography

Question 1

To protect people, correct injustice, and compensate for injury.

Answer 1

Goal of Medical Law

Question 2

Human desire to do good and avoid evil.

Answer 2

Natural law

Question 3

Affect the individual rather than society as a whole.

Answer 3

Civil law

Question 4

Enforced by fed/state legislatures to uphold social order and protect the rights of individuals.

Answer 4

Statutory law

Question 5

Enacted by agencies under government. (OSHA)

Answer 5

Administrative law

Question 6

Court made law based on custom and usage.

Answer 6

Common law

Question 7

Intentional and unintentional wrongful acts resulting in injury to a person or property.

Answer 7

Torts

Question 8

Assault and physical injury through force or violence, Battery, Confidentiality

Answer 8

Intentional tort

Question 9

Negligence through breach, harm, causation.

Answer 9

unintentional tort

Question 10

Failure to meet standard of care

Answer 10

Breach

Question 11

Injury suffered by patient

Answer 11

Harm

Question 12

Failure of patients care was cause of injury

Answer 12

Causation

Question 13

Right to prevent unauthorized contact is either written, verbal, or implied.

Answer 13

Informed consent

Question 14

Legal responsibility for consequences of one’s actions.

Answer 14

Liability

Question 15

Employer held responsible

Answer 15

Master servent

Question 16

Hospital held responsible

Answer 16

Ostensible agency

Question 17

Thing speaks for itself

Answer 17

Res ipsa loquitur

Question 18

Attending physician is held responsible

Answer 18

Borrowed servant

Question 19

Chaperones, policy and procedure, scope of practice, malpractice, guidelines

Answer 19

Protection against lawsuits

Question 20

Study of duty moral obligation and taking the right action

Answer 20

Deontology

Question 21

Study of evidence of design and purpose of nature

Answer 21

Teleology

Question 22

Duty to promote good

Answer 22

Beneficence

Question 23

Above all do no harm

Answer 23

Nonmaleficence