Intro And History Flashcards
Provide the legal and moral obligations of a professional medical technologist
Medical technology laws and bioethics
What is law
A rule of conduct, it is just and obligatory, promulgated by legitimate authority, of common observance and benefit
What are the basic legal principles in laws
Ignorance of the law, law should have no retroactive effect, rights may be waived, laws are repeated, customs are contrary to law
Prevent a person from relieving any liability by claiming that they are ignorant of the law
Ignorance of law
Law directs rights that are already vested
Laws shall have no retroactive effect, unless the contrary is provided
Allows an individual to voluntarily abandon or relinquish a right that is otherwise available to them
Rights may be waived unless the waiver is contrary to a 3rd person with q right recognized by law
Only a law can repeal another law, latter shall govern
Laws are repealed
Not laws and cannot repeal existing laws or the constitution
Administrative and executive acts
Supreme law of the land. it is the basic and paramount law in which other laws conform
The constitution
Hierarchy of law
The constitution > ordinary laws > administrative and executive acts
A rule of conduct formed by reposition of acts, uniformly observed and practiced, legally binding and obligatory
Custom
A local custom as a source of right cannot beconsidered unless
It is established by competent evidence
Means annul, revoke, or abolish
Repeal
Are legislative flats that have legal effects in the practice of medical technology
Medical technology laws
Set limitations, basic rights, responsibilities and obligations
Medical technology laws
Are special penal laws because q violation of any is provisions is punishable by a fire, imprisonment or both
Medical technology laws
Primary function of a punishment
Protect society against potential wrongdoings in the practice of a profession
Why must punishment for malpractice be reasonably foreseen
For the guidance of society
A philosophical discipline that deals with the morality of human conduct in relation to health and to human life
Bioethics
Includes the discussion of philosophical tenets a virtues of health care providers
Breathes
Quality of a human act
Morality
Parameters of morality
The act must be good in itself
The act must be good in its end
The circumstances other than the end must be good
Laws enacted become
Expressions of public morality
The law is the witness and deposit of our moral life
Justice Holmes
Something that men create in their best moments to protect themselves in their worst moments
Laws
The life of the law has been experience
Justice Holmes
Deals with the minimum standards of human conduct
Law
Concerned with maximum standards of human conduct
Morality
A helpful starting point of thinking about a proper or ideal public morality for a society
Law
In the past, illnesses and diseases were
Curses or punishments
Ancient physicians examine specimen from patients
A priori
Oldest known test
Urinalysis
Made observations on the color and consistency of urine on 4000 bc
Physicians in Babylon
Egyptian documents that contains accounts of describing polymer and intestinal worms, such were confirmed
Ebers papyrus
Ebers papyrus was confirmed with the discovery of
Calcified helmith eggs in mummies in 1200 bc
Document of Ebers papyrus was based on
5000 bc papyri in Thebes, Egypt
Greek physician born on 460 bc
Hippocrates
Studied signs and symptoms in humans and correlated it with diseases
Hippocrates
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
Indoctrinated scientific importance of medicine and its ethical standards in
Hippocratic oath by Hippocrates
Described hematuria or blood in the wine
Rufus of Ephesus
A Roman physician considered to be the first forensic pathologist
Antistius
Performed autopsy on Julius Caesar in 44BC where he found out that he had 23 wounds but only one penetrated the chest cavity the through first and second libs
Antistius
Madhumeha or honey urine
Indian physicians in 500 ad
A Jewish physician and philosopher, devised guidelines for using whine as a diagnostic aid
900 ad, Isaac Judaeus
Proposed the primitive version of the “germ theory”
16th century, Girolamo Fracastoro
Validated the germ theory after 300 years
Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur
Discovered the tubercle bacillus as causative organism of tuberculosis
Robert Koch
Described the circulation of blood in 1628
William Harvey
Existence of capillaries which fortified Harvey’s description
Marcella Malpighi
English physician that conducted the first successful blood transfusion in animals in 1665
Richard Lower
Premier phase of laboratory medicine
17th century
Invented Leeuwenhoek microscopes
Antonio van Leeuwenhoek
Made accurate descriptions of spermatozoa 1677 and red blood cells 1684
Antonio van Leeuwenhoek
Pioneered cytology and described types of cancer
Johannes Muller
Established the fundamentals of cellular pathology
Rudolf Virchow
Observed that the mold penicillium killed staphylococci in culture
Alexander Fleming
Austrian physician that discovered major blood groups in 1909
Karl Landsteiner
Received the 1930 Nobel prize for medicine
Karl Landsteiner
Established the Rh blood group system around 1940
Karl Landsteiner
Medical technology was offered as a course worldwide
1940
Made by the Spanish colonial health system to examine food, water, and clinical specimens
Conduct biochemical analyses for public health and to undertake specimen examinations
Laboratorio municipal de Manila
Year even the first public health laboratory was established
1883
Medical approaches were improved upon and public health education was introduced
American occupation
In 1921 legislation was passed for the establishment of
School of hygiene and public health
In 1921 what university opened its degree granting school of hygiene and public health
University of the Philippines
Health education, public health hospitals, laboratory services was strengthen
Commonwealth era
The department of public health was created in
1939
The development of public health was impeded by
Empire of Japan in World War II
26th medical laboratory of the 6th United States Army
September 1945 established
At 208 Quiricada St Sta Cruz, Manila
First modern clinical laboratory of the country
26th medical laboratory
When the 6th US army departed the laboratory was left in the care of
Department of health
The clinical laboratory was reorganized by
Dr. Alfredo Pio de Roda with the assistance of Dr. Mariano Icasiano
The 26th medical laboratory was renamed as
Manila public health laboratory
Ensued but did not last long because of the formal education of medical technology began
Training of laboratory technician
Offered medical technology as a 2 year course
1953 Philippine union college
Pioneer of medical technology education in the Philippines
Willa Hilgert Hedrick
The first medical technology graduate
Dr. Jesse Umali
Republic act no. 5527
The Philippine medical technology actof 1969
The philippine medical technology was enacted on
June 21, 1969
PAMET
The Philippine Association of Medical Technologists, Inc.
Is the national organizationof all rmts in the Philippines
PAMET
Pamet was founded on
September 15, 1963 in the public health laboratory at 208 Quiricada St. Sta. Cruz, Manila
Organized PAMET thus known as the father of PAMET
Sought to standardizethe profession and to improve and upgrade its practice
Mr. Crisanto G. Almario
The RA no. 5527 was enacted through PAMET under its first president
Charlemagne T. Tamandong
