Craig Ch 7 Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sonography Flashcards
To protect people, correct injustice, and compensate for injury.
Goal of Medical Law
Human desire to do good and avoid evil.
Natural law
Affect the individual rather than society as a whole.
Civil law
Enforced by fed/state legislatures to uphold social order and protect the rights of individuals.
Statutory law
Enacted by agencies under government. (OSHA)
Administrative law
Court made law based on custom and usage.
Common law
Intentional and unintentional wrongful acts resulting in injury to a person or property.
Torts
Assault and physical injury through force or violence, Battery, Confidentiality
Intentional tort
Negligence through breach, harm, causation.
unintentional tort
Failure to meet standard of care
Breach
Injury suffered by patient
Harm
Failure of patients care was cause of injury
Causation
Right to prevent unauthorized contact is either written, verbal, or implied.
Informed consent
Legal responsibility for consequences of one’s actions.
Liability
Employer held responsible
Master servent
Hospital held responsible
Ostensible agency
Thing speaks for itself
Res ipsa loquitur
Attending physician is held responsible
Borrowed servant
Chaperones, policy and procedure, scope of practice, malpractice, guidelines
Protection against lawsuits
Study of duty moral obligation and taking the right action
Deontology
Study of evidence of design and purpose of nature
Teleology
Duty to promote good
Beneficence
Above all do no harm
Nonmaleficence
