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12 Cards in this Set
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true or false: once a patient signs consent they must continue treatment?
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false - pts can change their minds at any time
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Exceptions to the requirement of informed consent?
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Emergency situations
pts without decision making capacity pts that sign waivers to the right of informed consent |
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a 15y/o pregnant girl requires hospitalization for preeclampsia. Should parents be informed?
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No. Parental consent is not necessary for medical treatment of pregnant minors
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Doctor refers pt for an MRI at a facility he owns
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Conflict of interest
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Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization can be undertaken for what 3 reasons?
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Pt is danger to self, others, or gravely disabled (unable to provide for basic needs)
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true or false: Withdrawing life-sustaining care is a more serious measure than withholding care.
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False. Withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining care are the same from an ethical standpoint.
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When can a MD refuse to continue treating a patient on the grounds of futility?
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When there is no rationale for treatment, maximal intervention is failing, a given intervention has already failed, and treatment will not achieve the goals of care.
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An 8y/o child is in a serious accident. She requires emergent transfusion and the 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 3rd parties, suicidality, certain contagious diseases, elder and child abuse.
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Involuntary committment or isolation for medical treatment may be undertaken for what reason?
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Treatment non-compliance represents a serious danger to public health (eg TB)
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A 10y/o child presents in status epilecticus, 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 pts family cannot require that a doctor withhold information from a patient.
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