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- 2. person you name in your emergency, critical and advance care plan to make medical treatment decisions for you if you ever become too sick or injured to make or communicate those decisions for yourself
- 4. a system of law concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes.
- 7. the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation
- 9. basic rule of conduct between patients and medical caregivers as well as the institutions and people that support them
- 12. an agreement created by actions of the parties involved, but it is not written or spoken
- 14. the state of being imprisoned without legal authority.
- 16. the state of keeping or being kept secret or private.
- 17. a written or spoken agreement that is intended to be enforceable by law.
- 18. Interaction between two parties in which the law recognizes a private, protected relationship
- 19. a wrongful act or an infringement of a right leading to civil legal liability.
- 20. a written statement of a person's wishes regarding medical treatment
- 21. make a physical attack on.
- 22. moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity
- 23. Lack of legal capacity or qualification
- 26. electronic application used by patients to maintain and manage their health information in a private, secure, and confidential environment
- 27. a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation
- 28. list of guarantees for those receiving medical care
- 30. failure to take proper care in doing something
- 31. system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs
- 32. US law designed to provide privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
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- 1. the action of damaging the good reputation of someone
- 3. the authority to act for another person in specified or all legal or financial matters
- 5. contract in which all elements are specifically stated
- 6. improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment
- 8. act to ensure that a patient's right to self-determination in health care decisions be communicated and protected
- 10. legal and moral rights of the residents of a nursing home
- 11. used to describe a circumstance where an individual or organization knowingly intrudes upon a person
- 13. permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences
- 15. or tort of unconsented physical contact with another person, even where the contact is not violent but merely menacing or offensive.
- 24. of, based on, or concerned with the law.
- 25. treat with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly.
- 29. a written statement detailing a person's desires regarding their medical treatment in circumstances in which they are no longer able to express informed consent