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11 Cards in this Set
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True or False:
Once patients sign a statement giving consent, they must continue treatment. |
False. Patients may change their minds at any time. Exceptions to the requirement of informed consent include emergency situations and patients without decision-making capacity.
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A 15-year-old pregnant girl requires hospitalization for preeclampsia. Is parental consent required?
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No. Parental consent is not necessary for the medical treatment of pregnant minors
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A doctor refers a patient for an MRI at a facility he/she owns
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Conflict of interest
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Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization can be undertaken for which three reasons?
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The patient is a danger to self, a danger to others, or gravely disabled (unable to provide for basic needs)
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True or false: withdrawing a non-beneficial treatment is ethically similar to withholding a non-indicated one
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True
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When can a physician refuse to continue treating a patient on the grounds of futility?
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When there is no rationale for treatment, maximal interevention is failing, a given intervention has already failed, and the treatment will not achieve the goals of care
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An eight-year-old child is in a serious accident. She requires emergent transfusion, but her parents are not present.
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Treat immediately. Consent is implied in emergency situations
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Conditions in which confidentiality must be overridden?
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Real threat of harm to third parties; suicidal intentions; certain contagious diseases; elder and child abuse
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Involuntary commitment or isolation for medical treatment may be undertaken for what reason?
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When treatment noncompliance represents a serious danger to public health (eg active TB)
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A 10-year-old child presents in status epilepticus, but her parents refuse treatment on religious grounds
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Treat because the disease represents an immediate threat to the child's life. Then seek a court order.
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A son asks that his mother not be told about her recently discovered cancer
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A physician can withhold information from the patient only in the rare case of therapeutic privilege or if the patient requests not to be told. A patient's family cannot require the physician to withhold information from the patient
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