Sentences with phrase «medical judgment»

In particular, they are allowed to administer medication, except when it would require professional medical judgment.

When the law addresses medical judgment directly, it allows room for reasonable physician choice.

The Court noted that in the context of the employment of a handicapped person with a contagious disease, this determination requires an inquiry into the pertinent facts, based on reasonable medical judgments given the state of medical knowledge.

Assigned tasks must be the type that a reasonable and prudent physician (or podiatrist) would find within the scope of sound medical judgment to assign.

of medicines and healthcare services and help eliminate fraud and improper influence on medical judgment.

In such cases, the ACOG proposes to override their best medical judgment in favor of «standard care» as determined by the ACOG.

She had then emphasized the superior position of legislatures over courts to make such factual medical judgments, argued for the right of states to regulate abortion despite the views of medical organizations on «the physical safety of a particular procedure,» and complained of «an unprecedented canon of construction under which in cases involving abortion a permissible [constitutional] reading of a statute is to be avoided at all costs.»

Cogent medical judgments meld first impressions — gestalt — with deliberate analysis.

A physician can delegate any procedure, to a qualified medical assistant, that does not require medical judgment.

(iv) That the physician, in his or her reasonable medical judgment, must base those conclusions on one of the following determinations:

Doctors can assign tasks «within the scope of sound medical judgment» to the medical assistant, according to the Montana Secretary of State.

The ethics committee at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan weighed in on August 9, 1993, opining that to honor the parents» desire to continue Baby Terry's treatment «would be contrary to medical judgment and to moral and ethical beliefs of physicians caring for the patient» (my emphasis).

Unfortunately, the balance struck by the committee between the right of conscience of physicians and the reproductive health care of women so emphasizes patient autonomy that it turns physicians into medical automatons forced to act against their best ethical and medical judgment.

Even then, she said «you may have to take the life of the child in order to save the life of the mother, but that is a medical judgment.»

Risk GP as a model for making medical judgments is the outgrowth of demands for evidence - based medicine, write Fuller, on the medicine faculty at the University of Toronto in Canada, and Flores, a philosopher at King's College London in England.

Railway surgeons were paid by the railroads and evaluated patients filing injury claims against the rail systems, so patients and even fellow physicians suspected their medical judgment might serve their employers» interests.

(a) As the MRO, you must, except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, report drug test results and medical information you learned as part of the verification process to third parties without the employee's consent if you determine, in your reasonable medical judgment, that:

For example, an arbitrator is not permitted to overturn the medical judgment of the MRO that the employee failed to present a legitimate medical explanation for a positive, adulterated, or substituted test result of his or her specimen.

He describes a lecture that he gave to about two thousand members of the American Medical Association during which he asked the physicians whether they felt that their medical judgments were affected by conflicts of interests with their hospital, drug manufacturers, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers or pharmaceutical sales representatives.

This is the latest instance of politicians intruding into the doctor - patient relationship, substituting their own opinions for a doctor's medical judgment.