Introduction to Legal Education and Historical Perspectives in Medical Technology Flashcards
It is any rule of action or any system of uniformity.
Law
Law that is promulgated and enforced by the state. Also called positive law, municipal law, civil law, or imperative law.
State Law/Jural Law
The law of religion and faith concerns on the concept of sin and salvation.
Divine Law
Is defined as the divine inspiration in man of the sense of justice, fairness, and righteousness.
Natural Law
It is an unstable law. It refers as the totality of the norms of good and right conduct growing out of the collective sense of right or wrong.
Moral Law
It is a stable law. There are uniformities of actions and orders of sequence which are the physical phenomena that what we sense and feel.
Physical Law
The written instrument by which fundamental powers of government are established, limited, and defined. Since it was promulgated by the people, it is the fundamental, basic and supreme law of the land.
Constitution
Consists in the declaration of legal rules by a competent authority. Enacted Law or Statute Law are the acts passed by the legislature.
Legislation
Issued by administrative officials under legislative authority. It is intended to clarify or explain the law and carry into effect its general provisions.
Administrative or Executive Orders, Regulations, and Rulings
Decision of a superior court on a point of law are binding on all subordinate courts. Applying or interpreting the laws or constitutions from part of the legal system of the Philippines.
Judicial Decisions or Jurisprudence
Consists of those habits and practices which through long and uninterrupted usage have become acknowledge and approved by society as binding rules of conduct. It must be proved as a fact according to the rules of evidence.
Custom
It** includes the principle of justice and equity, decision of foreign tribunals, opinions of text writers and religion.**
Other sources
Is a portion of the body of law creating and defining rights and duties which may be either public or private in character. The good example is the law on obligations and contracts.
Substantive Law
The body of law prescribing the manner or procedure by which rights maybe enforced or their violations redresses.
Adjective Law/Remedial Law/Procedural Law
The body of legal rules which regulates the rights and duties arising from the relationship of the state to the people.
Public Law
Defines crimes and provides for their punishment.
Criminal Law
Governs the relations among nations/states.
International Law
Governs the relations between the state and its citizens.
Constitutional Law
Regulates the relations of individuals with one another for purely private ends.
Private Law
Governs the** relation between organizations and individuals**.
Civil Law
Governs the** rights, relations, and conduct of persons and businesses engaged in commerce, merchandising, trade, and sales**.
Mercantile Law/Commercial Law
Provide the means by which private rights maybe enforced.
Civil Procedure
Medical Technology is “the application of principles of natural, physical, and biological sciences to the performance of laboratory procedures which aid in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.” as defined by?
Ruth Heinemann (1963)
Medical Technology is “the** branch of medicine** concerned with the performance of laboratory determinations and analyses
used in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease and the maintenance of health.” as defined by?
Anna Fagelson (1961)
Medical technology or clinical laboratory science “as the health profession concerned with performing laboratory analyses in view of obtaining information necessary in the diagnosis and treatment of disease as well as in the maintenance of good health.” as defined by?
Walters
Medical Technology is an
auxiliary branch of laboratory medicine which deals with the examination by various chemical, microscopic, bacteriologic and other medical laboratory procedures or technique which will aid the physician in the diagnosis, study and treatment of disease and in the promotion of health in general according to?
Republic Act 5527
The Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
What are the four humors or body fluids of man?
- blood
- phlegm
- yellow bile
- black bile
They believed that medical technology began from the medieval period as supported by the fact that urinalysis was a fad.
Ruth Williams
They made the “scientific observation” that the urine of certain individual attracted ants, and that such urine has a sweetish taste.
Early Hindu Doctors
In 1632, he invented and improved the compound microscope.
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
In 1848, he performed the first quantitative test for urine sugar. At the same time, the rapid advancement of our chemistry laid the ground work for the development of our modern clinical chemistry.
Herman Fehling
A Jesuit priest. Used the microscope to investigate the diseases.
Athanasius Kircher
Belgian mystic. He developed the gravimetric analysis of urine.
Jean Baptiste van Helmont
Italian microscopist. Investigated the embryology of chicks and the histology and physiology of the glands and viscera.
Marcello Malphigi
English Philosopher, architect and polymath. Published Micrographia which featured illustration of his observations using microscope.
Robert Hooke
Medical doctor. Described the protein in urine.
Frederick Dekkers
English Physiologist. Performed the first blood transfusion in animals.
Richard Lower
English Physiologist. Described the process of coagulation.
William Hewson
Medical Doctor. Developed the yeast test for sugar in diabetic urine.
Francis Home
Medical Doctor. Identified sugar in the blood and urine in diabetics.
Matthew Debson
Father of Field Epidemiology. By detecting the source of cholera in London
John Snow
The most widespread war that occurred from 1939 to 1945
World War II
Existing laws of the land mandate the professional practice of medical technology. The rules and regulations pertaining to the same should be compiled with.
Pertinent Laws
When did Hippocrates formulate the Hippocratic Oath?
460 B.C.
It is the code of ethics for practicing physicians.
Hippocrates analyzed urine and wrote a book entitled ____________ to aid in his diagnosis.
UROSCOPY
Omnibus Implementing Rules and Regulations, which considers the existence of employer and employee relationship.
Labor Laws
Medical Technology professional who comits an offense can never be denied due process and equal protection.
Criminal Laws
Since the Medical Technologists are Filipino whether natural-born or naturalized, he or she enjoys the Bill fo Rights.
Constitution of the Philippines
MEdical technologists is mandated to perform or observe the Code of Professional Ethics at all times from the time he/she receives his/her license.
Professional Ethics
What are the last two hallmarks of medical technology professional practices?
- Professioanl Organizations
- CHED Memorandum Order
