Ethics/Legal

Patient Autonomy & Consent

Informed Consent
Implied Consent (Emergency)
Assent (Minors)
Therapeutic Privilege (Withholding Information)
Refusal of Treatment (Competent Adult)

Capacity & Decision-Making

Competence vs. Capacity
Surrogate Decision-Maker (Healthcare Proxy)
Advance Directives (Living Will)
Durable Power of Attorney
Mature Minor Doctrine

Confidentiality & Privacy

HIPAA Violations
Tarasoff Duty (Duty to Warn)
Mandatory Reporting (Child/Elder Abuse)
Breach of Confidentiality (Exceptions)
Physician-Patient Privilege

End-of-Life Care

Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)
Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS)
Euthanasia (Active vs. Passive)
Palliative Sedation
Terminal Sedation

Reproductive Ethics

Abortion (Roe v. Wade)
Emergency Contraception (Minors)
Sterilization (Ethical Consent)
Sperm/Oocyte Donation (Anonymity)
Surrogacy (Legal Parentage)

Research Ethics

Nuremberg Code
Belmont Report (Principles)
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Informed Consent in Research
Placebo Use (Ethical Limits)

Impaired Professionals

Physician Substance Abuse
Duty to Report Impaired Colleague
Sexual Misconduct (Boundaries)
Fraud (Upcoding, Unnecessary Procedures)
Self-Treatment (Ethical Concerns)

Pediatric & Adolescent Ethics

Emancipated Minor
Minor Consent (STI, Pregnancy, Drug Use)
Parental Refusal of Treatment (Jehovah’s Witness)
Child Abuse Reporting
Genetic Testing in Minors

Disability & Discrimination

ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)
Discrimination (Race, Gender, Age)
Disability Accommodations
GINA
Sterilization of Disabled (Buck v. Bell)

Organ Donation & Transplantation

Brain Death Criteria
Organ Allocation (UNOS)
Living Donor Ethics
Presumed Consent
Financial Incentives for Donation

Public Health & Legal Duties

Quarantine (Infectious Disease)
Vaccination Mandates
Duty to Treat (HIV, Pandemics)
Stark Law (Physician Self-Referral)
False Claims Act (Medicare Fraud)

Medical Errors & Disclosure

Full Disclosure (Ethical Obligation)
Apology Laws
Sentinel Event Reporting
Malpractice (4 D’s: Duty, Dereliction, Damage, Direct Cause)
Never Events

Cultural Competence & Bias

Health Disparities
Cultural Sensitivity (Religious Beliefs)
Implicit Bias
Language Barriers (Interpreter Use)
Folk Illnesses (Cultural Context)

Genetics & Ethics

Genetic Discrimination (GINA)
BRCA Testing (Ethical Disclosure)
Prenatal Genetic Screening
Gene Editing (CRISPR Ethics)
Eugenics (Historical Misuse)

Psychiatric Ethics

Involuntary Commitment
Least Restrictive Alternative
Right to Refuse Treatment (Psych)
Psychiatric Advance Directives
Restraint/Seclusion Guidelines

Futility & Resource Allocation

Medical Futility
Rationing (Ethical Frameworks)
Triage (Disaster Scenarios)
Withdrawal of Life Support

Professionalism & Boundaries

Dual Relationships
Gifts from Pharmaceutical Companies
Social Media (HIPAA Risks)
Sexual Relationships with Patients

Legal Cases & Precedents

Schloendorff v. Society of NY (Consent)
Canterbury v. Spence (Informed Consent)
Quinlan Case (Right to Die)
Cruzan v. Director, MO Health (Advance Directives)
Tarasoff v. Regents of UC (Duty to Warn)

Miscellaneous High-Yield

Good Samaritan Laws
EMTALA (Emergency Treatment)
Kickbacks (Anti-Kickback Statute)
False Imprisonment (Holding Patients)
Abandonment (Terminating Care)

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