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    This document discusses various legal and ethical concepts in healthcare including: informed consent, liability for actions of employees, treatment of minors and Jehovah's Witnesses, living wills overriding family wishes, Good Samaritan laws regarding transporting patients, and state laws regarding minor's consent to abortions. It also briefly defines legal consent versus non-legal assent.

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    This document discusses various legal and ethical concepts in healthcare including: informed consent, liability for actions of employees, treatment of minors and Jehovah's Witnesses, living wills overriding family wishes, Good Samaritan laws regarding transporting patients, and state laws regarding minor's consent to abortions. It also briefly defines legal consent versus non-legal assent.

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     Always try to understand why someone wants to do something that’s not medically indicated

     If you a 16 year old girl who has given birth to a baby, she is a parent now and she is technically
    an emancipated minor.
     Battery is when you do something to a patient without obtaining informed consent.

     Res ipsa loquitor – the thing speaks for itself.

     Respondeat superior – you are liable for anyone and everyone that works below you in your
    practice. That means if your nurse does something wrong and the patient is harmed, that means
    the nurse, you, and your business is liable.

     Do not treat Jehovah’s witness adult patient if they don’t want treatment.

     If the patient is a child, parents can never refuse life-saving treatment

     Passive euthanasia – withholding life-saving treatment if patient refuses treatment.

     Patient’s living will is the most powerful even over next of kin’s wishes.

     Good Samaritan Law – never put a patient in distress in your car. Always wait for emergency
    services to arrive. Your responsibility is to stabilize the patient until em services come and assess
    the situation.
     Most states do not let minors consent to their own abortions. You would have to defer to the
    state law.

     Consent – legal term

     Assent – non-legal term. Children must give assent in the setting of a research study. If they
    don’t provide assent, then they’re free to go.

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