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| A statement of the patient's wishes regarding health care proir to a critical medical event. |
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| An attempt or threat to touch another person without his or her consent. |
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| Actual touching of a persone without their consent. |
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| Moral issues and concerns that affect a persons life. |
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| An infraction such as breach in contract in which in which the agreed on terms are violated. |
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| A branch of law that focuses on issues between private citizens. |
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| Traditional laws that were established by the English legal system. |
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| The protection of patients data from unauthorized people. |
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| An agreement between a patient and a physician to give medical procedures. |
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| The agreement between two or more parties for a given act. |
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| Making false or malicious statements about a person character or reputation. |
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| A process in which one party questions another under oath. |
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| a patient under the age of majority but is a legally considered to be an adult. |
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| The guild lines of moral behavior that' enforced by a peer group. |
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| A deceitful act with the intention to conceal the truth. |
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| An informal agreement of approval from the patient to preform a given task. |
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| An act that takes place with malice and with the intent of causing harm; a deliberate violation of another persond legal rights. |
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| Written statement that defames a persons reputation or character. |
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| process of filling or contesting a lawsuit. |
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| A tort in which the patient is harmed by the actions of a health care worker. |
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| Performance of an act that reasonable health care worker would not have done or omission of an act that a reasonable person would have done. |
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| Describes a patient who refuses or is unable to follow prescribed orders. |
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| The code of proper conduct. |
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| Oral statement that defames one's reputation. |
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| Laws that are written by a federal, state or local legislator. |
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| A legal time limit. The time a patient has to file a lawsuit. |
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| The righting of wrong or injuries suffered by someone because because of another persons wrong doing. |
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