Medical Law & Ethics Test 1 Chapters 1-4 Review
Be able to explain ….

 A partnership
 Accreditation
 Applied ethics
 Assault/ battery
 Bioethicists
 Civil law 
 Common law 
 Confidentiality
 Criminal law 
 Defamation
 Defendant
 Due process 
 Empathy 
 Ethics
 False imprisonment
 Guardian ad litem
 How a state grants licensure 
 How medical practice acts are established 
 How to testify in court
 Intentional torts 
Libel
 Medical practice acts 
 Medicare and medicaid
 Morality
 Negligence
 Plaintiff
 Reciprocity 
 Regulation 
 Standard of care
 Statute of limitations
 Statutes 
 The gatekeeper 
The role of medical professional organizations 
Utilitarianism
What Kenneth Bblanchard and Norman Vincent Peale developed
When a contract between the patient and the physician can be terminated 
 When a license can be revoked

Medical Law & Ethics Test 2 Chapters 5-8 Review
Be able to explain…

A minor 
COBRA of 1985 
Compensatory damages 
DEA  
DEA registration numbers 
Employment-at-will 
Four elements to prove negligence
HIPAA 
How to prevent medical errors  
Indigent patient  
Malpractice
Negligence
OSHA  
Patient confidentiality does not apply in the case of:
Patients rights
Physicians rights
Privileged communication
Public duties for the physician
Punitive damages
Registration for physicians who administer controlled substances 
Reportable communicable disease
Reporting possible child abuse
Res ipsa loquitur
Respondent superior
Sexual harassment 
Statute of limitations
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 
The Civil Rights Act of 1991 
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1994 
The medical examiner 
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986?
The Wagner Act of 1935 (NLRA) 
What is included on a death certificate
When to obtain patient consent 
Who signs a live birth certificate

Medical Law & Ethics Test 3 Chapters 9-13 Review
Be able to explain….

“if documentation does not appear in the medical record”
A DNR order 
A legal death (by the book)
Active euthanasia
Applied ethics 
Are illegal acts ethical?
Correcting medical record errors 
HIPAA
Information included in a medical record
Ownership of the medical record 
Passive euthanasia
Pro-choice advocates 
Prolonged absence of oxygen can result in
Right-to-life advocates 
Stages of death and dying  
The conscience clause 
The father of medicine
The Harvard Criteria for declaration of an irreversible coma 
The Privacy Rule 
The purpose of a medical record 
The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act:
When medical records can be released: