health law

Introduction
Maintenance of professional standards
- History
- Relationship of law and ethics
Law and medical practice
- Government financing
- License requirements for practice
  - The exclusive systems
  - The tolerant systems
  - The inclusive and integrated systems
- Legal restrictions on practice
  - Determination of death
  - Termination of pregnancy
  - Sudden death
  - Public reporting
- Legal redress
Patients’ rights

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U.S. President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House on March 23, 2010.

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A pediatrician in a white coat listens to a young boy's chest with a stethoscope during a health exam; the boy is smiling and pulling aside his shirt.

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Physicians must provide proper and skillful care to their patients.

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Marble portrait bust of Hippocrates atop a tall rectangular base inscribed with an epigram in Greek, displayed against a black background.

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Hippocrates, Roman bust copied from a Greek original, c. 3rd century bce;...

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U.S. President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House on March 23, 2010.

Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010,...

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