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Law
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Rules or actions prescribed by a government authority
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Ethics
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Difference between right and wrong
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Three-Step Model
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Is it LEGAL?
Is it BALANCED? How does it make you feel? |
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Applied-Ethics
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Application
of moral standards that concern benefiting the patient
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Bio-Ethics
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Moral dilemmas and issues as a result of advances in medicine and medical research
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Utilitarianism
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Greatest good for the greatest number of people
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Rights-Based Ethics
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Person's individual rights- belong to ALL people
weakness: selfish behavior |
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Duty-Based Ethics
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Focuses on performing duty
weakness: difficult to know who determine's one duty |
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Virtue-Based Ethics
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Emphasis on people, not on decisions or principles involved
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Values
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Beneficence - is an act of kindness
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Due-Process
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If rights are being violated, one can go through a process to be resolved
EX: sexual or gender harassment |
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Medical Practice Acts
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To Protect general public
established by state legislature |
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Torts
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Civil injury or wrongful act
committed against another person or property(results in harm) |
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Reciprocity (Medical Practice Act)
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Cooperation of state grants a license to practice medicine to a physician already practicing in another state
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Implied Contracts
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Shown through inference by signs, inaction, or silence
Ex: "rolling up sleeve implies that you are okay with blood being drawn" |
