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Physicians must obtain a patient's consent before performing medical procedures or sharing private health information. Consent can be implied in emergency situations but is otherwise required to be express and informed, meaning the patient understands what they are agreeing to. Medical ethics, compliance, and liability are important legal topics that govern the standard of care physicians must provide patients.

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Physicians must obtain a patient's consent before performing medical procedures or sharing private health information. Consent can be implied in emergency situations but is otherwise required to be express and informed, meaning the patient understands what they are agreeing to. Medical ethics, compliance, and liability are important legal topics that govern the standard of care physicians must provide patients.

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True OR False diagnosis

19. /
1. The legal term "abandonment" as it 20. Ethics are standards of conduct
applies to physicians means 21. /
failure to furnish care. 22. Ethics come from one's understanding of
right and wrong
2. Assault is defined as bodily contact 23. /
without permission 24. Etiquette is behavior that is considered
good manners
3. In medical law, battery includes
procedures performed without 25. The polite phrases "please" and "Thank
the patient's consent You" are examples of bioethics
4. battery can be interpreted to include
procedures that go beyond 26. Express consent may given either orally or
in writing
5. what the patient agreed to have done 27. /
28. Express consent is required for routine
6. Patients must authorize the sharing of the treatment only
medical records for 29.
either treatment or insurance purposes 30.
31. Implied consent is given when the
7. Medical Offices have the right to share patients signs a consent form
the information about their patients if 32. /
they decide its necessary to do so 33. Informed consent means that the
physician has clearly explained
8. Bioethics deals with biology 34. a procedure to a patient and the patient
has agreed to have it
9. Compliance means adhering to laws and 35. done
regulations
36. Physicians who provide emergency
10. A patient who does not follow the services are protected against
physicians instructions is lawsuits by the Good Samaritan Act.
11. performing defensive medicine
37. Fraud can be done by accident
12. A patient who does not follow the
physicians instructions may 38. Liability means legally responsible
13. contribute to an unsatisfactory health
outcome 39. Licensure is granted by a state of law

14. Physicians may engage in defensive 40. Physicians and other health care
medicine to avoid the professionals must be licensed under
15. possibility of lawsuits state law before practicing medicine.
16. /
17. Defensive medicine includes ordering only 41. Litigation involves lawsuits
those tests that the
18. physician thinks are necessary to make a 42. Medical Practice acts are those that a
reasonable and prudent 67. regarding confidential patient
43. physician would not do information.
44. / 68. /
45. Malpractice can be a physicians failure to 69. Compliance plans help medical practices
perform an act that avoid accusations of
46. most reasonable prudent doctors would 70. fraud against government health care
do in care of a patient programs
47. / 71. /
48. Medical practice acts are passed by state 72. Medical Assistants, along with physicians
governments. may be liable for
49. / 73. negligence
50. Medical practice laws govern licensure of 74.
physicians
51. /
52. A registration is a permit to prescribe and
dispense drugs
53. /
54. A release of information is a document
signed by a physician
55. /
56. A settlement is an agreement between
opposing parties
57. /
58. The statute of limitations is a state law
determining the time
59. limit after which an act is not subject to
legal actions
60. /
61. Ethics are laws

62. A patient may be videotaped without


giving consent

63. Physicians are not liable for the safety of


those who fork for them

64. The documentation of a patients care is


important in resolving patient physicians
disputes.

65. The physicians office is permitted to


forward any item in the patients chart to
an insurance company

66. Each state determines what reports


physicians must file

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