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Identify key difference between law and ethics - Answer Identify specific rights that patients have in relation to health care - Answer Be a patient advocate - Answer A person who intercedes on behalf of another person Report illegal and/or unsafe activities and behaviors affecting patient care to proper authorities - Answer Describe how certain ethical issues generate ethical conflict in society pg. 39 - Answer Describe ways to separate and prioritize personal and professional ethics pg 41 - Answer What is private law - Answer civil law; regulates relationships among people What is public law - Answer laws that define the relationship between the individual and society as a whole What is a crime? - Answer An offense in violation of a law that prohibits or requires certain behavior Type of Criminal Law - Answer Crime Felony Misdemeanor Malfeasance What is misdemeanor - Answer Less serious crime, commonly punishable with a fine, imprisonment for less than 1 year, or both, or with parole. What is a felony? - Answer A serious crime

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Chapter 3 -Ethics and Law for the
Medical Office-Questions with Complete
Answers.
Identify key difference between law and ethics - Answer



Identify specific rights that patients have in relation to health care - Answer



Be a patient advocate - Answer A person who intercedes on behalf of another person



Report illegal and/or unsafe activities and behaviors affecting patient care to proper authorities
- Answer



Describe how certain ethical issues generate ethical conflict in society pg. 39 - Answer



Describe ways to separate and prioritize personal and professional ethics pg 41 - Answer



What is private law - Answer civil law; regulates relationships among people



What is public law - Answer laws that define the relationship between the individual and
society as a whole



What is a crime? - Answer An offense in violation of a law that prohibits or requires certain
behavior



Type of Criminal Law - Answer Crime

Felony

Misdemeanor

Malfeasance



What is misdemeanor - Answer Less serious crime, commonly punishable with a fine,
imprisonment for less than 1 year, or both, or with parole.



What is a felony? - Answer A serious crime



What is malfeasance? - Answer wrong doing that is illegal or contrary to official obligation

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