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11 Cards in this Set
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T or F:
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. Should her parents be informed?
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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 that he/she owns. This is called ___.
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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 diabled (unable to provide basic needs)
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T or F:
WITHDRAWING life-sustaining care is ethically distint from WITHHOLDING sustaining care. |
FALSE.
Withdrawing & withholding life are the same from an ethical standpoint |
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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 intervention is failing, a given intervention has already failed, & treatment will not achieve the goals of care |
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An 8 y/o child is in a serious accident. She required emergency 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 contageous diseases; elder & child abuse |
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Involuntary committment 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 (e.g., active TB)
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A 10 y/o child presents in status epliepticus, 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 patient's family cannot require that a doctor withhold information from the patient
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