ANSWERS.
different correct answers Medical ethics and medical etiquette are .... (the same, different, almost
the same, opposite)
situation where the patient has consented to surgery by one physician, but without the patient's
knowledge or approval, another surgeon performs the surgery correct answers "Ghost surgery" is
a what?
precept correct answers A ________ is a practical rule guiding behavior or technique.
a. law
b. custom
c. cultural more
d. precept
public domain correct answers Information that is in the _______ belongs to the community at
large and may be appropriated by anyone
a. public library
b. hospital medical library
c. public domain
d. Library of Congress
Moral correct answers ________ ethics, concerns issues of right and wrong, human character
and behavior.
a. kind
b. moral
c. professional
d. accurate
Hippocratic Oath correct answers The most commonly known code of ethics for the medical
profession, written about 400 B.C, is the ___________.
1847 correct answers The first American Medical Association code of ethics was written in what
year?
1980 correct answers The latest revision of the American Medical Association code of ethics
took place in what year?
standards correct answers The principles in the AMA code of ethics are not law but:
a. custom
, b. standards
c. good manners
d. conventional
all of the above correct answers Violation of the tenets of an association or society may result in
________
a. censure
b. expulsion
c. suspension
d. all of the above
criminal correct answers If a physician is involved in _________ activity, the medical society is
obligated to report it.
a. abrupt
b. outdated
c. optical
d. criminal
True correct answers A physician is not prohibited from performing a lawful abortion according
to good medical practice.
A. True
B. False
child abuse correct answers Law Requires that a physician report:
a. cigarette use
b. child abuse
c. income tax evasion
d. unwise diet
patients who will derive the most long term benefit correct answers In cases where a physician
must make moral decisions, such as who shall receive an organ donated transplant, highest
priority is given to the _____________.
a. oldest patients
b. youngest patients
c. patients who are most ill
d. patients who will derive the most long term benefit.
c and d correct answers In artificial insemination situations, which of the following is true?
a. the identity of the sperm donor is revealed
b. c and d