Medical Law And Ethics

Medical Law And Ethics

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Medical Law And Ethics...

Medical Law And Ethics

Practical business law & ethics information for leaders, managers, and health care professionals, and the realm of values and morality.

1. Medical Ethics: An Overview

The word "ethics" is derived from the Greek word ethos (character) and

from the Latin word mores (customs)

Generally, failure to comply with a code of professional ethics may result in expulsion from the profession or some lesser sanction

Go To: Wikipedia Medical Ethics

2. Issues in Risk Management

Interactive online tutorial

The goals of the overall risk management program are to identify areas of actual or potential risk, prevent, as much as possible, injuries to patients, visitors and employees, and to prevent or limit financial loss to the hospital and its staff.

The legal setting

Malpractice

Avoiding malpractice

The medical record

Patient rights

Quiz

Risk Handbook and resources

Go To: Issues in Risk Management

Credits:

Thomas J. Balcezak, MD; Patrick Lynch, MS; Phillip Simon, BFA; Sean Jackson, DMA;

C. Carl Jaffe, MD; and Edwin C. Cadman, MD

Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT

3. A Glossary of Terms in Ethics

Credits:

Lawrence M. Hinman

To: Glossary of Terms in Ethics

4. Ethics Case Studies

Credits:

Santa Clara University

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Go To: The Case of the Depressed Patient

End-of-Life Decision Making: Case 1

End-of-Life Decision Making: Case 2

5. Medical Ethics -- Resources for Med Students

An Education in Ethics

Case Studies

Go To: Medical Ethics Resources

6. Pain and the Law

Developed by St. Louis University and

the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics

under a grant from the May Day Fund

Go To: Pain and the Law

7. University of Connecticut Health Center

Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics

Educating medical, dental, and public health students

Go To: Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics

8. Positive Profiles

Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative Web site

The premier website for humanism in medicine

Go To: Positive Profiles

9. Online Ethics Center: Responsible Research

Contains cases, discussions, guidelines, and

regulations bearing on the responsible conduct of research

including both issues of research integrity and

issues of the treatment of the research subject

Go To: Online Ethics Center

10. Center for Health Law Studies

A center at St. Louis University School of Law

researches cutting-edge issues in the areas of antitrust

e-health, elder law, disability law

and bioethics

Go To: Center for Health Law Studies

11. Elder Law Aging with Dignity

Nonprofit organization dedicated to educating Americans on

the impending aging phenomenon, and

to advocate for new attitudes and approaches to aging

Go To: Aging With Dignity

12. Patient's Right to Palliative Care

Doctors have an ethical obligation to treat pain as effectively as possible

Dedicated to educating the public and healthcare workers

Go To: Patients Right To Palliative Care

13. Dying and The Market

Is there money to be made off the dying?

Is it ethical to make money off the bereaved?

How are come "clever" business people cashing in?

Go To: Dying Online

14. The Euthanasia Corner

Resource organizations, commentaries, court decisions, and

news you can use

Go To: The Euthanasia Corner

15. Lawcopedia’s Guide to Medical Malpractice

Guide to understanding elements and strategies

involved in a medical malpractice claim

including the litigation process, medical experts, and

confidential status of medical records

Many links to common examples of malpractice

in medical specialties and procedures

Go To: Guide to Medical Malpractice

16. Health Privacy Project

Georgetown University's Institute for Health Care Research and

Policy's Health Privacy Project site offers

legislation, consumer information and publications

Go To: Health Privacy Project

17. SDSU College of Business Administration

Business Ethics and Social Issues Exercises

What is sexual harassment quiz

Go To: What is Sexual Harassment?

18. Codes of Ethics Online: Health Care

Center For the Studies Of Ethics In the Profession

Management

Mental Health

Physical Health

Rehabilitation/Therapy

General and Other Specialties

Pharmaceuticals

Go To: Codes of Ethics Online: Health Care

19. Law and Medical Ethics: Ethical Topic in Medicine

Law and medical ethics are both dynamic and

are in a constant state of change

In the course of practicing medicine, a range of issues may arise that

require consultation from either a lawyer

a risk manager, or an ethicist

Credits:

Lisa A. Vincler, JD, Assistant Attorney General

Faculty Associate, Department of Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington

Go To: Ethical Topic in Medicine

20.The Hastings Center

Explores fundamental ethical questions in health care

biotechnology, and the environment

Go To: The Hastings Center

21. US Abortion Law Site

To help people, regardless of their political bent

understand the background and state of abortion law in America, and

access related legal material

Go To: US Abortion Law Site

22. CRLP Center For Reproductive Law and Policy

Working toward guaranteeing women's reproductive rights as a human right

Go To: CRLP

23. Pediatric Ethics Committee

Provide bioethics education on case-based issues, as well as

on medical practice standards in the provision of

inpatient and outpatient healthcare

Go To: Pediatric Ethics Committee

24. Do You Know Your Medical Rights?

The only way to make sure your rights as a patient are respected is

to know what they are

Here we explain those rights as well as your personal responsibilites

Go To: Know Your Medical Rights

25. Medical Consent Form Templates

Respect for persons requires that subjects, to the degree that they are capable,

be given the opportunity to choose what shall or shall not happen to them.

This opportunity is provided when adequate standards for informed consent are satisfied.

Go to: Informed Consent Forms

26. Law and Ethics Terminology

Go to: Medica Ethics Terminology