Medical Law and Ethics

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Across
  1. 3. when someone doesn't have the legal capacity to form a contract
  2. 5. When a person works under the direction or control of another person (the person working under the employer
  3. 10. All information given to health care personnel by a patient
  4. 12. Financial compensation: Damages; Injunction: Order to stop doing something; Specific Performance: Order to do something
  5. 14. Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1979; Health Rights Commission Act 1991; Anti-Discrimination Act 1991; Workplace and Safety Act 1995; Information Privacy Act 2009; Child Protection Act 2003; Powers of Attorney Act 1998; Guardianship and Administration Act 2000
  6. 15. Patient self-determination act
  7. 16. Recognized by many health care facilities
  8. 17. It is now known who the person is; The death was a violent or otherwise unnatural death; The death happened in suspicious circumstances; The death was not reasonably expected to be the outcome of a health procedure; The cause of death certificate has not been issued; The death was in care; The death was in custody; The person had not consulted a doctor within 3 months before the person’s death
  9. 18. Actively assisting a person to die (ACTIVE); In response to a request, and with consent of the person (VOLUNTARY) (unlawful in Australia); Amounts to aiding suicide; Would also amount to murder; Consent to death immaterial (Criminal Code 1899 (Qld))
Down
  1. 1. Public health or safety; Administration of justice; Ways to prevent deaths from happening in similar; Circumstances in the future
  2. 2. Stated in distinct and clear language either orally or in writing
  3. 3. Documents that allow individuals to state what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when death is expected
  4. 4. Designation if health care surrogate / durable power of attorney
  5. 6. offer, acceptance, consideration
  6. 7. when defamation occurs and the information is written
  7. 8. Procures another to kill himself/herself; Counsels another to kill himself/herself and thereby induces the other person to do so; Aids another in killing himself/herself is a guilty crime, and is liable to imprisonment for life
  8. 9. an agreement between two or more parties
  9. 11. Obligations that are understood without verbal expression
  10. 13. Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment allowing a patient to die from natural causes; Withdrawal of treatment allowing patient to die of natural causes (PASSIVE); In response to a medical decision made in the best interests of the patient and in accordance with good medical practice (NON-VOLUNTARY)