Law &. Ethics for Medical Careers 5th Edition by Karen Judson,Carlene Harrison

Exercise 18

Use your critical thinking skills to answer the questions that follow each of the case studies. Indicate whether each situation is a question of law, ethics, protocol, or etiquette.
You are employed as an assistant in an ophthalmologist's office. Your neighbor asks you to find out for him how much another patient was charged for an eye examination at the eye clinic that employs you. Your neighbor also asks you how much the patient was charged for his prescription eyeglasses (the eye clinic also sells lenses and frames).
Should you seat the physician in the waiting room, or show her to your employer's private office? Why?
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
You are employed as a licensed practical nurse (LPN) in a small town. (In California and Texas, the term for this profession is "licensed vocational nurse"-abbreviated as LVN.) A woman visits the clinic where you work, complaining of a rash on her body. She says she recently came in contact with a child who had the same symptoms, and she asks, "What did this child see the doctor for, and what was the diagnosis?" She explains that she needs to know, so that she can be immunized if necessary. You explain that you cannot give out this information, but another LPN overhears, pulls the child's chart, and gives the woman the information she requested.