Usmle Step 3 First Aid Ethics

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Examples of emancipated minors

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financially independent, married, raising children, living on their own, serving in the armed forces

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in what conditions are MDs not required to ask parental consent (<18 y/o)

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requesting contraception or treatment of pregnancy, STDs or psychiatric illness; many states require parental consent for termination of pregnancy in a minor

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legal determination made by a court that a patient can think and act rationally

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competency

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clinical assessment that a patient can think and act rationally

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capacity

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when to violate confidentiality?

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threat to individual's life or well-being; violating confidentiality is mandatory; child abuse or elder abuse must be reported

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reportable conditions

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syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, TB, MMR, smallpox, suspected bioterrorist events

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oral or written statements regarding what a patient would want in the event that intensive resuscitative intervention becomes necessary to sustain life

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advanced directives

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are oral statements binding?

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oral states are ethically binding but not legally binding

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assisting an informed, competent, terminally ill patient to end life, usually by prescription of administration of lethal dose of medication

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euthanasia

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in which state is euthanasia legal?

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Oregon

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removal of life-sustaining treatment

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withdrawal of treatment (not the same as euthanasia)