owed? Nonpatients (pg.94) 4. If a custodian sues an employing physician for ordering her to lift a heavy bookcase that injures her back‚ is the issue of liability standard of care or duty of care? Duty of Care 5. What is the basis for most medical malpractice claims? High damage awards in tort cases have led to a malpractice insurance crisis for physicians. 6. A patient falls on a hospitals slippery tile floor and injures herself. Assuming that patient safety procedures were lax‚ what
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“Even if it is a clear cut case of misdiagnosis‚ for example‚ the patient must prove that his condition was worsened by the error before a jury can‚ as a matter of law‚ award him pecuniary compensation” (Holder‚ 1957). The foundational definition of medical malpractice was established in 1898 in the New York case of Pike v. Honsinger‚ when a man kicked in the knee by a horse
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There are numerous ethical issues that a medical assistant may encounter in a daily office or hospital setting. It is unethical to have a conversation with a fellow coworker regarding a patient. The patient may overhear or worse they may be related to someone in the office. It is no one’s business as to why the patient had an appointment. Another unethical behavior that is unacceptable is foul language in front of the patients. They do not need to hear that kind of language under any circumstances
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Medical assistant ethics. There are numerous ethical issues that a medical assistant may encounter in a daily office or hospital setting. It is unethical to have a conversation with a fellow coworker regarding a patient. The patient may overhear or worse may be relate to someone in the office. It is no one’s business as to why the patient had an appointment. Another unethical behavior that is unacceptable is foul language in front of the patient. They do not need to hear that kind a language under
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communicate‚ requires a Naso Gastric Tube for feeding‚ is doubly incontinent and has one to one care from a Health Care Support Worker for all her personal and clinical needs. Katie lives with her mother at home‚ who provides her care during the night. The medical team discovered that her chest infection is Pneumonia and begin the relevant treatment‚ however believe that due to Katie’s quality of life she should be Not for Resuscitation (NFR) in the event of a cardiac arrest. However‚ Katie’s mother argues
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stigmatization). 2. Ethics is an area of study which seeks to address questions about morality; that is‚ about concepts such as good and bad‚ right and wrong‚ justice‚ and virtue. 3. Ethics and psychology are intimately linked‚ inseparable concepts. Every psychological investigation is an ethically charged situation‚ as research often involves subjecting both human and animal participants to pain or embarrassment. In psychological experiments on human subjects‚ ethics are dictated by a series
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Medical Ethics A body and a mind under duress reacts much differently than a body and mind in normal circumstances. On a primal level‚ I think the mind’s main purpose is to protect the body from harm or to alleviate the pain once it is occurring. For that reason‚ a person who is in excruciating pain or has just undergone a traumatic life change is not mentally capable of making a rational decision about ending their life. Moreover‚ there is no rational decision one can make about ending one’s
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Medical Law and Ethics Project Ethical Question: Should abortion be abolished? Is abortion murder? Should rape be considered a reason for a young woman to get an abortion? Ethical Scenario 1: A beautiful 20 year old female having the time of her life‚ maybe going crazy having unprotected sex while whoever and not caring or even thinking of her consequences. A few weeks go by and the female ends up pregnant and automatically she decides to have an abortion because she don’t know the father
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Research Ethics: A Critique The term research ethics spans across a variety of disciplines ranging from Science‚ Law and even Academic study‚ "Research Ethics: A Critique" delves into historical events which lead to the revaluation of research ethics in fields such as science before questioning the ethics within academic internet research. For the sake of this paper the three historical events will involve "The Nuremberg war crimes"‚ "Tuskegee Syphilis Study" and "Project MKULTRA" (below you
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Modern medical technology has made it possible to extend the lives of many beyond the point of death. Death in recent times‚ often esures a long painful fall where on looses control both physically and emotionally. Some people accept that modern technology buys them time. While others find the loss of control frightening. They want their relatives to remember them as they were and not as a life prolonged by machines. Some people rather die than to live in pain. The demand for assisted suicides
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