After a stressful CT scan on a patient,you are confronted by the patient's family regarding the results of the examination.The patient was in a motor vehicle accident and has a severe head injury.The images you took are being sent to a "Nighthawk" reading service and will not be available for several minutes.The family insists they have a "right" to know the results immediately so they can make a decision about organ donation.How would you rationalize this situation to yourself as an imaging professional?
A) Your duty as a professional is to complete a quality CT examination quickly,not to interpret the images,and to do no harm to the patient.
B) You tell the family what you saw on the images as an act of veracity.
C) You tell the emergency department nurse about the images as an act of nonmaleficence.
D) You call the organ donor program director to tell him of the patient's condition as an act of fidelity.
Correct Answer:
Verified
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