Deck 12: Healthcare Ethics

Question 1

What is presumed consent for organ donations from family members?

A)If a parent or family member does not actively oppose an organ donation, the procedure occurs.
B)If the person is in a coma, the organ transplant can automatically occur
C)If the person dies, the organ transplant can automatically occur.
D)None are correct

Answer 1

If a parent or family member does not actively oppose an organ donation, the procedure occurs.

Question 2

Medical tourism occurs as more citizens travel overseas to have medical procedures because it costs much less overseas.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Transplantation is the general procedure of implanting a functional organ from one person to another.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The concept of stakeholder management focuses on:

A)The relationship between organizations and all of their constituents and how the organization must deal with their expectations.
B)Managing the shareholders' financial expectations of the organization.
C)Recognizing that physicians who are the most important stakeholder must be respected.
D)Recognizing that the government who is the most important stakeholder must be acknowledged.

Question 5

The priestly model assumes the doctor will make the best decisions for the patient's health. The patient assumes a very passive role, giving the provider great power in the decision making process. This is a very traditional relationship that often would occur between the elderly and physicians because they were taught to revere the medical world.

Question 6

Which of these tests is a type of genetic testing?

A)Diagnostic testing
B)Predictive and asymptomatic testing
C)Perinatal testing
D)A and B

Question 7

The term "cloning" applies to any procedure that recreates a genetic replica of a cell or organism.

Question 8

The concept of autonomy as it applies to healthcare is:

A)Defined as self-rule because it is applied to informed consent this requires a provider to obtain approval of a patient who has been provided information to make a decision regarding an intervention.
B)Defined as a provider making fair decisions for their patient
C)Defined as patients should be treated with respect and dignity.
D)Defined as the provider making the best decision for the patient.

Question 9

Medical ethics focuses on the decisions health care providers make on the patient's medical treatment. Euthanasia or physician assisted suicide would be examples of these types of decisions.

Question 10

Genetic testing is being carried out on populations because:

A)It can be used for diagnosis for different diseases.
B)It can be used to assess risk factors for a genetic disease
C)It can be used to assess if the person has a carrier gene to pass onto their children.
D)All of these statements are correct.

Question 11

What is physician assisted suicide?

A)The physician injects the patient with a medication that will enable them to die.
B)The physician writes a prescription for the patient enabling them to take their own life.
C)The patient steals a prescription pad from the physician's office to write a lethal prescription for themselves.
D)None are correct

Question 12

Alternative reproductive methods are:

A)Stem cells or starter cells for research.
B)Genetic testing methods to detect risk factors in a population.
C)The reproduction of animal cells to transplant into human beings.
D)Methods for parents that have conceived an embryo fertilized in a clinic which prior to its development can be tested for bone marrow compatibility to save sick siblings.

Question 13

enotransplantation which is the transfer of organs from one species to another. This has evolved as a result of the shortage of human organs available for donation. The first operation of this type was the transfer of a baboon heart into a 5 pound infant in 1984.

Question 14

The stewardship model of public health focuses on:

A)Public health officials should achieve the stated health outcomes for the population while minimizing restrictions on people's choices.
B)Individual freedom must restrict for the sake of public health interventions.
C)If there is a natural disaster, physicians must treat those affected by the event.
D)The doctor will make the best decisions for the patient's health.

Question 15

What are the components of common elements of informed consent for a research study?

A)written statement that includes the purpose and duration of the study
B)the procedures and duration of the study clearly defined
C)any risk and benefits clearly defined
D)all are correct

Question 16

Ethics is concerned with what are right and wrong choices as perceived by society and its individuals.

Question 17

Autonomy, which is defined as self-rule, is an important concept to health care because it is applied to "informed consent" which requires a provider to obtain the approval of a patient who has been provided adequate information to make a decision regarding intervention.

Question 18

Bioethics is a field of study concerned with the ethics and its implications of certain biological and medical procedures and technologies such as cloning, alternative reproductive methods such as in vitro fertilization, organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.

Question 19

The concept of paternalism and public health is the concern that individual freedom will be restricted for the sake of public health activities because the government infringes on individual choices for the sake of protecting the community.

Question 20

All human beings possess stem cells which are "starter" cells for the development of body tissue which have yet to be formed into specialized tissues for certain parts of the body.

Question 21

What is xenotransplantation?

Question 22

What is stakeholder management?

Question 23

In your opinion, what are the ethical issues regarding pharmaceutical marketing to physicians?

Question 24

What are the four models identified by Veatch (1972)that apply to the doctor-patient relationship?

Question 25

What is the purpose of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act?

A)To report any income derived from treating Medicare patients from the Sunshine state of Florida
B)To implement a code of conduct for physicians regarding payments received from drug companies.
C)Requires manufacturers of drugs and other health products to report annually payments and their value given to Medicare and Medicaid providers. Physicians must also report ownership interests held by physicians and families. Xx p. 321
D)All are correct Short Answer/Essay

Question 26

What are Institutional Review Boards and why are they important to healthcare ethics?

Question 27

What are the four basic values that all health care providers should observe?

Question 28

Define transplantation?