CHAPTER 3: MEDICOLEGAL & ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS|100% verified|10 pages

CHAPTER 3: MEDICOLEGAL & ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS Medical ethics CORRECT ANSWER Are not laws but are standards of conduct generally accepted as a moral guide for behavior. Oath of Hippocrates: -based on the golden rule that to be a good physician one must first be good and kind person. CORRECT ANSWER The first standards of medical conduct and ethics. The Modern Hippocratic Oath CORRECT ANSWER Updated by Dr. Louis Lasagna AMA CORRECT ANSWER American Medical Association Generally accepted practice procedures: A physician... CORRECT ANSWER 1) may ethically receive payments from patients but cannot accept rebate of any kind 2) may accept small gifts (e.g., plastic anatomic models, stethoscopes, booklets) but may not ethically accept large "gifts" from manufacturers or distributors of pharmaceuticals, remedies, or equipment 3) may employ a collection agency to try to collect overdue bills but may not sell delinquent accounts to the agency Hippocrates CORRECT ANSWER (c. 460 B.C. - 733 B.C.) -Greek physician aka the father of medicine -developed a code, the Oath of Hippocrates Bioethics CORRECT ANSWER -is the branch of ethics dealing with issues, questions, and problems that arise in the practice of medicine and in biomedical research. -emerged as a result of issues about the transplanting of organs, genetic engineering or manipulation, maintaining life with life sustaining equipment, physician-assisted suicide, cloning, abortion, fetal issue research, artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, stem cell research, and so on.. One of the most common unethical acts that occur in an office is CORRECT ANSWER Theft-in the form of misuse of office equipment, such as copy machine to copy your taxes, using the fax machine to send something personal, using company time to send e-mails or look at Facebook, or taking office supplies home. Ethical conduct, a medical assistant should: CORRECT ANSWER 1) remember that everything seen, heard or read about a patient is confidential & should not leave the