Medical Law 2022 UMED

According to the Act of 5 December 1996 on the profession of doctors and dentists, prescriptions are to be given to the patient or:
1) patient’s legal representative;
2) authorized person (indicated name and family name) by the patient;

3) other party with no specified identity authorized by the patient;
4) in the case of e-prescription in the form of a printout, authorized person (indicated name and family name) by the patient;
5) in the case of e-prescription in the form of a printout, other party with no specified identity authorized by the patient.
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The doctor is allowed to provide medical services to the minor who turned 16 years of age:

Providing patients with information about their health conditions:

he actual carer of an adult unconscious patient is allowed to express their consent for: 

Is the doctor obliged to report to the police an attempt to kill a man if they

obtained this information during medical examination?

Should the attending doctor planning a diagnostic procedure carrying increased risk obtain his patient’s consent for it?

A medical experiment involving humans is allowed to be carried out:

Does the Code of Medical Ethics contain regulations on doctor’s duties concerning preventive vaccinations?

According to the Code of Medical Ethics which criteria should the doctor take into consideration while deciding on the patient order for special therapy forms if they cannot be applied to all the patients simultaneously?

Which of the following concerning the principle of double effect is true?

A 67-year-old female patient was diagnosed with malignant jawbone cancer. The patient was offered an extensive surgical procedure involving the removal of half of the jawbone along with the teeth and hard palate, which would result in speech impairment, impediment to food intake, and changes in external appearance (scar and facial asymmetry). The patient categorically opposed the operation, arguing that she did not want to be visibly disfigured. Despite this objection, the doctor did not offer her any alternative treatment and continued to persuade the patient, also in the presence of her children, to give consent to the operation although the patient decided only on palliative treatment. After repeated persuasions of the doctor and her children, the patient gave in and agreed to the treatment proposed by the doctor. Was the doctor's behavior (persuading the patient, not offering alternative treatment and involving her children in the process of decision making) justified by ethics?

A pregnant woman had previously given birth to a child with hypochondroplasia, a genetic disease manifesting itself in dwarfism combined with joint and bone deformities. Fearing that this disease will occur in another child, she was referred by a gynecologist to a consultation clinic for women with high-risk pregnancies where she asked the physician for a referral to prenatal testing. The physician refused. Was that decision justified?

According to the Declaration of Helsinki (Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects) the primary purpose of medical research is to generate new knowledge. Such medical research:

is the doctor allowed to perform a surgical procedure or use increased risk

treatment without the consent of the minor patient’s legal guardian (e.g. their

parent) or the consent of the guardianship court?

The right of the patient to be informed includes:

The doctor providing the patient with medical services is allowed to refuse the patient the right to have their life partner present if:

A fully capable to express informed consent participant of a non-commercial clinical test carried on by the medical school:

to which sources of proceedings does the Code of Medical Ethics refer doctors in matters not regulated by it?

Is the doctor allowed to take part in activities aiming to trigger hereditary genetic changes in humans?

the duty of the Regional Chamber of Physicians does not include:

Who can issue a patient’s death certificate?

If the doctor does not give the patient who is qualified for further treatment the

information on the suggested and possible diagnostics and treatment:

In accordance with the Act of 5 December 2008 on preventing and combating

infections and infectious diseases in humans, a Canadian citizen while in Poland

is exempted from the obligation to undergo protective vaccinations (except

post-exposure vaccinations) if their length of stay is not longer than:

According to the Code of Medical Ethics, the doctor's highest ethical commandment is:

The doctor's duties towards respecting patients' rights include, among others:

A doctor speaking critically about another doctor's actions should:

According to the principles of medical ethics, in the case of diagnostic and therapeutic doubts, the doctor should:

A doctor is not authorized to provide information about a health condition of an

unconscious female patient (aged 54):

According to the principles of medical ethics, while performing medical activities,

the doctor:

To carry out a medical experiment, the following conditions have to be fulfilled:

1) a written consent of an examined person who is to participate in the experiment has to be obtained;
2) a consent of the director of a regional branch of the National Health Fund (NFZ) has to be obtained;

3) prior notice has to be given to an examined person about the purposes, methods and conditions of conducting the experiment, expected therapeutic and cognitive benefits, risk and a possibility of withdrawing from the experiment at any of its stages;
4) project should be approved by an independent bioethical committee;
5) project should be verified by the Regional Medical Chamber.
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Can a person with a suspected occurrence of a particularly contagious disease that threatens health or life be subject to direct coercion measures in order to force him/her to undergo medical treatment?

A basis for discharging a patient from hospital is not:

Is the doctor allowed to reject or discontinue the treatment of the patient?

What measures should the doctor take while examining the patient or providing

them with other medical services without the patient’s consent (due to their

poor health condition or age)?

Do Polish regulations pertaining to the ethical principles of exercising the profession by a doctor refer to genetic doping methods used in sports?

The Code of Medical Ethics prohibits physicians from:

A patient needing hospitalization was taken to the ER. According to the regulation on the conditions, manner and mode to supply hospital patients with identification signs and how to proceed if found their absence such a patient should be provided with an identification sign placed:
1) on the fever card affixed visibly to the patient’s bed;
2) on a room board at the entrance to the patient’s room;
3) on a band around the patient’s wrist or ankle;
4) in the patient’s individual medical records;
5) on an identifier around the patient’s neck.
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Is the following sentence: “Doctors are not allowed to cooperate with people who deal with the treatment but who don’t have entitlements to do so.” true?

Is the patient allowed to raise objections to the doctor’s opinion concerning their illness?

Direct coercion is allowed to be applied:
1) to a person with mental disorders who refuses to comply with doctor’s or nurse’s ordinal instructions;
2) to prevent a person admitted to the psychiatric hospital without their consent from unauthorized leave;
3) if a person with mental disorders carries out an attack against life or health on themselves or another person;
4) if a person with mental disorders refuses to give explanation to psychiatric hospital’s Ombudsman for Patients’ Rights;
5) if a person with mental disorders seriously interferes with or prevents the operation of the mental health care facility.
The correct answer is: