Obligations
Obligations (Medicine)
Obligations (pronounced: ob-li-ga-tions) in the context of medicine, refers to the ethical, legal, and professional duties that healthcare professionals owe to their patients and society.
Etymology
The term 'obligation' originates from the Latin word 'obligatio', which means 'a binding or a tying up'. In the medical context, it refers to the binding duties and responsibilities that healthcare professionals have towards their patients and society.
Related Terms
- Medical Ethics: The field of applied ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict.
- Patient Rights: The basic rules of conduct between medical caregivers as well as the institutions and people that support them and patients. The patient rights include the right to privacy, informed consent, and the right to refuse treatment.
- Professionalism: The conduct, aims or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or professional person; it implies quality of workmanship or service.
- Healthcare Law: The federal, state, and local law, rules, regulations and other jurisprudence among providers, payers and vendors to the healthcare industry and its patients; and delivery of healthcare services; all with an emphasis on operations, regulatory and transactional legal issues.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Obligations
- Wikipedia's article - Obligations
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