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| try to do good and benefit others, act in the patient's best interest |
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| do no harm. duty to not kill, cause physical/emotional suffering, or deprive others of beneficial things. |
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| obligation to respect patients as individuals and honor their preferences in medical care |
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| treating people fairly and without predjudice |
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| healer does not abandon or exploit patients and the interest of self/third parties is not placed above the patient's needs |
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| provide the greatest positive consequences and the least negative consequences |
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| imposing a careless or unreasonable risk of harm on another |
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| legal criteria for negligence |
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| the professional must have a duty to the affected party; the professional must breach that duty; the affected party must experience a harm; and the harm must be caused by the breach of duty |
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| physician sexual misconduct |
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| behavior that exploits the physican-patient relationship in a sexual way |
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| a relation of trust, confidence, or responsibility in one's obligations to another |
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engaging in any conduct with a patient that is sexual
or may be reasonably interpreted as sexual |
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behavior, gestures, or expressions
that are seductive, sexually suggestive or sexually demeaning to a patient |
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unable to practice medicine
with reasonable skill and safety to patients because of physical or mental illness,
including deterioration through the aging process
or loss of motor skill,
or excessive use or abuse of drugs including alcohol.” |
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