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  2. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

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    A man who suffered severe burns requests the right to die. Giovanni Nuvoli: Italy Alghero, Sardinia: 2007 A man in pain requests a legal right to die. Sue Rodriguez: Canada Victoria, British Columbia: 1991 A woman requests a right to assisted suicide. Ramón Sampedro: Spain Galicia: 1998 For 29 years a man requests his right to assisted suicide.

  3. Medical error - Wikipedia

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    Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [45] [52] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [53] [54] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.

  4. Physical therapy - Wikipedia

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    Physical therapy addresses the illnesses or injuries that limit a person's abilities to move and perform functional activities in their daily lives. [3] PTs use an individual's history and physical examination to arrive at a diagnosis and establish a management plan and, when necessary, incorporate the results of laboratory and imaging studies like X-rays, CT-scan, or MRI findings.

  5. Adherence (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, patient compliance (also adherence, capacitance) describes the degree to which a patient correctly follows medical advice.Most commonly, it refers to medication or drug compliance, but it can also apply to other situations such as medical device use, self care, self-directed exercises, or therapy sessions.

  6. Confidentiality - Wikipedia

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    For example, in 1990 Florida passed a 'Sunshine in Litigation' law that limits confidentiality from concealing public hazards. [20] Washington state, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana have laws limiting confidentiality as well, although judicial interpretation has weakened the application of these types of laws. [ 21 ]

  7. Right and wrong - Wikipedia

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    Right and wrong may refer to: Ethics , or moral philosophy, a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior Morality , the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper

  8. Therapy - Wikipedia

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    First-line therapy (sometimes referred to as induction therapy, primary therapy, or front-line therapy) [2] is the first therapy that will be tried. Its priority over other options is usually either: (1) formally recommended on the basis of clinical trial evidence for its best-available combination of efficacy, safety, and tolerability or (2 ...

  9. Medical diagnosis - Wikipedia

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    Detection of any deviation from what is known to be normal, such as can be described in terms of, for example, anatomy (the structure of the human body), physiology (how the body works), pathology (what can go wrong with the anatomy and physiology), psychology (thought and behavior) and human homeostasis (regarding mechanisms to keep body ...