Question | Answer |
What is one important reason for a medical assistant to study ethics? | To develop the intellectual skills to analyze complex problems
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What is the name for normal, acceptable behavior in our society?2 | Etiquette
| Current thinking about biomedical ethics identifies several rights. What is a right?3 | A strong claim3
| What is another name for the duty to meet reasonable expectations of patients?4 | Fidelity4
| What is the name for a patient’s right to make decisions about health care according to individual values and concerns?5 | Autonomy5
| What right is the basis for informed consent?6 | Right to autonomy6
| What is the name for the concept that a health professional should do the best possible?7 | Beneficence7
| In today’s health care environment, it is seen as a proactive duty that physicians and other health care professionals must provide truthful information without having to be asked. This expectation of truthfulness by all health care workers is called?8 | Veracity8
| Informed consent is consent based on?9 | Understanding of a medical procedure and its possible outcomes9
| The experimental treatments that attempt to treat or cure disease by giving patients new genes or parts of genes that have been synthesized in the laboratory, taken from human tissue, or engineered from genetic material of animals or other species is called?10 | Genetic engineering10
| What U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1973 established the right of a woman to obtain an abortion in any state?11 | Roe v. Wade11
| Which 1990 law recognizes the rights of adults to refuse treatment for disease?12 | Patient Self-Determination Act12
| In how many states is physician-assisted suicide legal?13 | One13
| Which of the following does NOT fall into the category of advance directives?14 | Informed consent form14
| In her role as medical assistant, Stacy has an important ethical decision to make. She has decided to implement the six-step process to make ethical decisions. What is the first thing she must do?15 | Gather information15 |