* Informed consent: the free (uncoerced) authorization of procedure that given by
a competent individual, having sufficient information (para 1-13).
Injury: a physical, financial or emotional act, or some other invasion of the
plaintiff's rights and privileges (para 4-8a).
Instrumental value: a decision to choose one mode of conduct, e.g., honesty,
Intentional tort: a wrongful act that arises from the intent (not necessarily
hostile) to bring about a result that will invade the interests of another in a legally
unsanctioned way (para 4-3a).
Invasion of privacy:
interference with the right of a
person "to be
let alone"
(para 4-3e(1)).
* Irreversible terminal illness: a progressive disease or illness known to
terminate in death, and for which additional therapy offers no reasonable
expectation of remission (para 2-28).
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liable: legally responsible (para 4-4b).
* life-sustaining treatment: any medical procedure or intervention which serves
only to artificially prolong the dying of a patient, diagnosed and certified by at least
two physicians as afflicted with a terminal condition or as being in a persistent or
chronic vegetative state (para 2-9b).
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malpractice: professional negligence; failure to render proper services through
reprehensible ignorance, negligence, or criminal intent, especially with resultant
injury or loss (para 4-4b).
* materiality (material risk) standard of disclosure: the standard of disclosure
whereby the physician's duty to disclosure information material to the decision is
determined by the informational needs of a hypothetical objective "reasonable
patient," not by professional practice (para 1-14c).
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