| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Advance directive | A document that outlines specific wishes about medical care to be followed in the event that an individual loses the ability to make or communicate health care decisions |
| Assault | The threat of touching in an injurious way |
| Battery | The unlawful use of force against a person |
| Defendant | The party named in a plaintiff's complaint and against whom the plaintiff's allegations are made |
| Diagnostic | Identification of a disease or condition by a scientific evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, history, laboratory test results, and procedures |
| Empathy | The ability to recognize and to some extent share the emotions and state of mind of another and to understand the meaning and significance of that person's behavior |
| Ethics | The science or study of moral values or principles, including ideals of autonomy, beneficence, and justice; term is also applied to the moral values or principles themselves |
| False imprisonment | The intentional unjustified, noconsensual detention or confinement of a person for any length of time |
| Fellow | A graduate student who is paid ofr services rendered while receiving advanced education; in the health care setting, physicians receiving advanced training in specialized areas may be designated as such |
| Felony | A crime declared by statute to be more serious than a misdemeanor and deserving a more severe punishment |
| Hospitalist | Physician specialist, often an internist, who limits practice to treatment of hospital inpatients |
| Intern | A physician in the first postgraduate year, learning a practice under supervision before beginning a residency program or practice |
| Libel | A false accusation, written, printed, or typewritten, or presented in a picture or sign that is made with malicious intent to defame the reputation of a person who is living, or the memory of a person who is dead, resulting in public embarrassment, contempt, ridicule, or hatred |
| Malpractice | Professional negligence that is the proximate cause of injury or harm to a patient, resulting from a lack of profession knowledge, experience, or skill that can be expected in others in the profession or from a failure to exercise reasonable care or judgment in the application of professional knowledge, experience, or skill |
| Misdemeanor | A criminal offense that is considered less serious than a felony and carries a lesser penalty, usually a fine or imprisonment for less than 1 year |
| Mission statement | The role of an organization, hospital, or health care facility stated in a one or two paragraph declaration of the institution's basic philosophy and primary goals. This statement provides guidance for the decisions that govern the activities of the organization or facility |
| Moral agent | The one responsible for implementing an ethical decision |
| Negligence | The commission of an act that a prudent person would not have done or the omission of a duty that a prudent person would have fulfilled, resulting in injury or harm to another person |
| Plaintiff | A person who files a civil lawsuit initiating a legal action |
| Radiologist | A physician who specializes in medical imaging |
| Resident | A physician in one of the postgraduate years of clinical training (often specialized) after the first, or internship, year |
| Slander | Any words spoken with malice that are untrue and prejudicial to the reputation, professional practice, commercial trade, office, or business of another person |
| Therapeutic | The treatment of any disease or pathological condition |
| Tort | A civil wrong, such as negligence, false imprisonment, assault, and battery |
| Radiography | Discovered in November 8, 1895 by William Conrad Roentgen |
| Joint Review Commission on Education in Radiology Technology | JRCERT; National accrediting agency for Radiology technology programs |
| American Registry of Radiologic Technology | ARRT; certifying agency for medical imaging |
| Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospital Organizations | JCAHO |
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