The Basics: Medical Law, Ethics, and
Bioethics 2024/2025 Exam All Answers
and Illustrations Given
applied ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the practical application of moral standards
to the conduct of individuals involved in organizations
litigious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔prone to engage in lawsuits
laws - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔rules of behavior established by a political authority
and backed by state power
medical law - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔addresses legal rights and obligations that
affect patients and protect individual rights, including rights of health care
employees
defensive medicine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ordering more tests and procedures
than are necessary in order to protect oneself from a lawsuit.
medical practice acts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔State laws written for the express
purpose of governing the practice of medicine
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, ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔branch of philosophy related to morals, moral
principles, and judgement. Concerned with "what we should or ought to do.
morality - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the quality of being virtuous or practicing the right
conduct
amoral - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔lacking ethical principles
medical ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔moral conduct based on principles
regulating the behavior of healthcare professionals. Applies to patients,
relatives, and the community.
teleological theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Consequentialism
Worth of an action judged by the consequences
The end justifies the means
Supports paternalistic behavior if no harm is done. Ex: utilitarianism
deontological theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Some actions are right or wrong and
we have a duty or obligation to peform them or refrain from peforming
them. Ex: duty based ethics
utilitarianism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔idea that the goal of society should be to
bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
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Bioethics 2024/2025 Exam All Answers
and Illustrations Given
applied ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the practical application of moral standards
to the conduct of individuals involved in organizations
litigious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔prone to engage in lawsuits
laws - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔rules of behavior established by a political authority
and backed by state power
medical law - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔addresses legal rights and obligations that
affect patients and protect individual rights, including rights of health care
employees
defensive medicine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ordering more tests and procedures
than are necessary in order to protect oneself from a lawsuit.
medical practice acts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔State laws written for the express
purpose of governing the practice of medicine
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔branch of philosophy related to morals, moral
principles, and judgement. Concerned with "what we should or ought to do.
morality - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the quality of being virtuous or practicing the right
conduct
amoral - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔lacking ethical principles
medical ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔moral conduct based on principles
regulating the behavior of healthcare professionals. Applies to patients,
relatives, and the community.
teleological theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Consequentialism
Worth of an action judged by the consequences
The end justifies the means
Supports paternalistic behavior if no harm is done. Ex: utilitarianism
deontological theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Some actions are right or wrong and
we have a duty or obligation to peform them or refrain from peforming
them. Ex: duty based ethics
utilitarianism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔idea that the goal of society should be to
bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
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