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26258
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Hospitals occasionally become a source of news and information. When dealing with the news media, hospitals must have a well-conceived strategy that considers patient privacy, confidentiality, avoiding disturbances, obeying the law, serving the community, maintaining a good community image, and serving the researcher.
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26259
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A topic of discussion among psychiatrists and therapists in North Carolina has been potential liability for injuries to other persons caused by violent patients under their care. Litigation dealing with this liability is based on the law of negligence. Psychotherapists have the duty to act when they believe the patient is dangerous to a readily identifiable victim.
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26260
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As organ-transplant operations become more common and the demand for suitable organs increases, hospitals throughout North Carolina may expect to become increasingly involved in procedures for donating and removing organs. North Carolina adopted the Anatomical Gift Statute to prescribe mechanisms for individuals or their survivors to donate organs.
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26261
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The 1983 session of the General Assembly of North Carolina saw substantial changes made in health legislation. These changes included new health planning efforts, health care funds, statute revisions, and enactments regulating the health professions, provision of health services, health maintenance organizations, medical records, and the right to a natural death.
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26262
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In assessing school health problems, it is the privacy issues that seem most difficult ethically as well as legally. Such issues involve stigmatizing conditions, confidentiality, obligations of school employees, counseling and record keeping.
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26263
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North Carolina law requires school and health workers to cooperate in attending to children’s health and learning needs. There are state statutes on school health, health education, immunization, ability to participate in activities, communicable disease, and child abuse and neglect.
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26264
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Health department officers and employees should be aware of circumstances under which they could be sued for their official conduct, or found liable to pay damages. Lawsuits under both state and federal rules may be brought against the board of health or the health department as extensions of the county.
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26265
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Abortion presents questions of law, individual and public health, and appropriate government expenditure. Current North Carolina law permits abortion during the first twenty weeks of pregnancy. In the 1982-1983 term, the Supreme Court will reopen legal debate by reviewing five significant abortion cases.
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26266
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Public health officials who make inspections are subject to the Fourth Amendment. They must either obtain consent or a warrant, or be sure of an exception for inspections. There are exceptions for public areas, abandoned property, emergency situations, and heavily regulated businesses.
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26267
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The 1982 session of the General Assembly made significant changes in North Carolina health laws. Its major emphasis was on regulating both health workers and costs of care at the state and local government levels and in the private sector.
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26268
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State legislators met last year for both a regular session and a special budget session on the impact of federal budget cuts. Nursing homes, midwives, nurses, and septic tanks were among the many subjects that received legislative attention. Much of the significant new health legislation addresses occupational licensure, malpractice liability, regulation of hospital rates, and abortion.
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26269
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The courts recognize the deceased’s next of kin have the rights to possess the dead body for purpose of burial, and to possess the corpse in the same condition as it was found. North Carolina litigation concerning dead bodies has centered on mutilation, unauthorized autopsies, unauthorized embalming, wrongful detention, failure to properly dispose of the body, and unauthorized photographs of the decedent.
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26270
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North Carolina requires parental consent before health care providers may render most types of medical care to minors, but courts and legislatures have begun to create exceptions to the rule. Proponents argue the laws are necessary to protect the health of the minor who would not seek medical care if parental consent were required. Opponents argue that the state is insinuating their way into the parent-child relationship and threatening family integrity.
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26271
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In 1977, North Carolina created the Governmental Evaluation Commission to conduct formal, periodic evaluations of state regulatory programs. The Commission will evaluate the health licensing boards and examine the membership composition for professional bias.
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26272
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Decisions from the 1979 General Assembly of North Carolina broadened the powers of local health directors, amended several licensing laws, and clarified the brain-death law. One very significant change was an act allowing pharmacists to substitute less expensive generic drugs for brand-name drugs that are prescribed.
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