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Laws are repealed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