Ch. 7: Legal Essentials and Patient Rights

What is the oldest form of law that is ever evolving?

Common law

What includes statues enacted by federal, state, or local governments?

Statutory law

Which statutory law addresses statutes regarding the power of agencies to regulate and enforce laws?

Administrative law

Physicians often choose to practice “______ medicine.”

defensive

Which statutory law includes crimes against the state or society as a whole?

criminal law

Which statutory law involves crime against an individual, including slander, libel, trespassing, and contract violation?

civil law

A ____ is a wrong committed against a person or property, which may result in physical injury, damage to personal property, or deprivation of liberty or freedom.

tort

Torts are classified as negligence (unintentional) or ______.

intentional

Assault, battery, false imprisonment, defamation of character, embezzlement, invasion of privacy, fraud, and infliction of emotional distress are all examples of _____.

intentional torts

What is the unlawful touching a person without his/her consent?

Battery

Battery requires ______.

bodily harm

What laws include protection for people who provide emergency to a stranger from civil or criminal liability (under certain circumstances)?

Good Samaritan laws

What are the two types of consent?

Informed and implied consent

Documentation is one of the standards in the ____ Clinical Practice Standards for Sonographers.

SDMS