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Professionalism & Medical Ethics Flashcards

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  1. A 15-year-old requests confidential treatment for a sexually transmitted infection. In most US states, the physician may:

    Answer: Treat the minor confidentially, as state law allows minor consent for STI care

    All US states allow minors to consent to STI diagnosis and treatment without parental consent.

  2. Under EMTALA, a hospital emergency department must:

    Answer: Provide a medical screening exam and stabilize emergency conditions regardless of ability to pay

    EMTALA requires screening and stabilization of emergency medical conditions regardless of insurance or payment ability.

  3. A terminally ill patient with capacity asks to stop artificial nutrition. Ethically and legally, withdrawing it is:

    Answer: Permissible, as withdrawing treatment is ethically equivalent to withholding it

    Competent patients may refuse any treatment, including artificial nutrition, and withdrawing equals withholding ethically.

  4. Which principle allows giving high-dose opioids for pain relief at end of life even if respiratory depression is foreseen but not intended?

    Answer: Principle of double effect

    Double effect permits an action with a good intended effect even if a foreseen bad effect occurs, provided it is not the means.

  5. A physician withholds a diagnosis because they believe disclosure would cause severe, immediate harm to the patient. This rarely justified exception is called:

    Answer: Therapeutic privilege

    Therapeutic privilege is a narrow exception allowing withholding of information only when disclosure would cause serious harm.

  6. A patient asks a DO to post a positive review in exchange for a discount. What professionalism concern applies?

    Answer: Offering incentives for reviews is deceptive and undermines trust

    Exchanging financial incentives for reviews misleads the public and violates honesty standards in professional conduct.

  7. An unconscious trauma patient needs emergency surgery and no surrogate is available. Treatment may proceed under:

    Answer: Implied (emergency) consent

    The emergency exception presumes a reasonable person would consent to life-saving treatment.

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