Final - 23

Question 1

Abandonment

Answer 1

Termination of the patient-professional relationship in a manner that denies the patient necessary medical care

Question 2

Anti Kick Back Statue

Answer 2

A criminal statute that prohibits the exchange (or offer to exchange) of anything of value in an effort to receive the reward of federal healthcare program business

Question 3

Battery

Answer 3

The intentional offensive or harmful touching of another person without that person’s consent

Question 4

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 4

A collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice

Question 5

Conspiracy

Answer 5

An agreement made by two or more people to perform an illegal or harmful act

Question 6

Clinical Trials

Answer 6

A series of research tests performed on human subjects to determine the effectiveness and safety of a new drug

Question 7

Coining

Answer 7

Is a old asian practice that some may consider abuse

Question 8

Competent

Answer 8

The capacity of a person to understand a situation and to act reasonably

Question 9

DNR

Answer 9

A medical order written by a doctor that instructs healthcare providers not to use cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if breathing stops or the heart stops beating

Question 10

Electronic Health Records

Answer 10

An electronic record of health-related information about an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability

Question 11

Equal Protection Clause

Answer 11

A clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that is intended to end all remaining discrimination resulting from slavery and requires state laws to protect each citizen equally

Question 12

Eugenics

Answer 12

The study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable

Question 13

Felony

Answer 13

A serious crime that typically involves violence and is usually punishable by at least one year in a state prison, or death

Question 14

Genetic Engineering

Answer 14

Any process by which genetic material is changed to make possible the production of new substances or new functions

Question 15

General Intent

Answer 15

A mental plan to do something that is against the law, whether the specific results that eventually occur were meant to happen or not

Question 16

EMTALA

Answer 16

A law created to ensure public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay

Question 17

Genetics

Answer 17

A field of biology concerned with the study of heredity and gene variation

Question 18

HIV/Hepatitis

Answer 18

A virus that attacks the body’s immune system

Question 19

Hospice Care

Answer 19

Medical care that focuses on patient comfort and quality of life rather than curing the patient’s disease; generally appropriate for someone with a terminal illness and life expectancy six months or less

Question 20

Hippocrates

Answer 20

An oath attributed to the ancient Greek known as Hippocrates that requires a new physician to swear upon a number of healing foods to uphold professional ethical standards; strongly binds the student to the teacher and the greater community of physicians

Question 21

Imhotep

Answer 21

Imhotep is thought to have diagnosed and treated over 200 diseases in his lifetime

Question 22

Jack Kevorkian

Answer 22

Murad Jacob “Jack” Kevorkian was an Armenian-American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient’s right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, “Dying is not a crime”. Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end

Question 23

Libel

Answer 23

Defamation that occurs in a written format

Question 24

Mandated Reporter

Answer 24

A person who has a legal requirement to report

Question 25

Misdemeanor

Answer 25

Jack Kevorkian was an Armenian-American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient’s right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, “Dying is not a crime”. Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end.

Question 26

Medical Mal Practice

Answer 26

The improper, unskilled, or negligent treatment of a patient by a healthcare professional

Question 27

Negligence

Answer 27

The failure to act as a reasonable person of ordinary prudence would act in a certain situation

Question 28

Oregon Death Act

Question 29

Older Americans Act

Answer 29

Legislation that provided states with funding for community planning and social services, research and development projects, and personnel training in the field of aging; established the Administration on Aging

Question 30

Prosecutor

Answer 30

A representative of the government who brings charges and leads government efforts to prove the guilt of a defendant in court

Question 31

Patent

Answer 31

A grant made by a government that gives the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a specified period of time

Question 32

Police Power

Answer 32

The basic right of state and local governments to make laws and regulations for the benefit of their communities

Question 33

Statues

Answer 33

Laws established by a legislative body

Question 34

Slander

Answer 34

The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation

Question 35

Surrogate Decision Maker

Answer 35

A person who has been entrusted by a once competent patient to make decisions on the patient’s behalf when he or she is unable to make those decisions

Question 36

Sanctions

Answer 36

In criminal law, describes the punishment for a criminal offense

Question 37

Surrogacy

Answer 37

A person who has been entrusted by a once competent patient to make decisions on the patient’s behalf when he or she is unable to make those decisions

Question 38

The Nuremberg Code

Answer 38

The Nuremberg Code is a set of principles for human experimentation set as a result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.

Question 39

United States Constitution

Answer 39

The formal charter of the United States, which defines the powers and limitations of the national government and the rights of the people