Medical Law 2022 UMED
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Evaluate the truth of the following sentence: “In the case of an unconscious patient the doctor is allowed to provide, for the good of the patient, necessary information to the person who in the doctor’s opinion acts in the patient’s interest.”
The so called “conscience clause” refers to:
the doctor determines that the prognosis for the patient is unfavourable and that passing on this information to them may harm the good of the patient.
What in light of the law may the doctor do?
According to the Act on the Patient’s Rights and the Commissioner for Patients' Rights, the patient has the right to:
1) give consent for specific healthcare services;
2) refuse consent for specific healthcare services;
3) free-of-charge information on the patient’s rights set out in this Act;
4) free-of-charge extracts, duplicates, copies or printouts of their medical documentation;
5) free-of-charge legal advice in the area of medical and health insurance law. The correct answer is:
The necessary condition allowing the possibility of taking cells, tissues or organs from a deceased adult for transplantation purposes is:
The doctor may provide a healthcare service that involves kidney biopsy in an adult patient who is completely legally incapacitated after obtaining:
A long-term female partner of the deceased patient comes to the doctor’s office and demands revealing the secrets of the disease her partner suffered from. During his life, the patient expressed the will not to disclose the information covered by medical secrecy to his female partner. According to the Act of 5 December 1996 on the Professions of Physician and Dentist, the physician:
Does the Code of Medical Ethics refer to euthanasia?
A patient with her husband come to the gynaecologist’s office. The husband wants to be present at the examination. What should the doctor do?
1) they should allow the husband to be present at the examination because husband as a close person has the right to be present at the provision of health services;
2) if the patient does not give her clear consent to her husband’s presence, they should ask him to leave;
3) they may not allow the husband to be present at the provision of health services to his wife if they decide that the patient’s health safety is at stake;
4) they should let the husband assist because her silence should be interpreted as implicit consent;
5) regardless of circumstances and the patient’s will they should ask the husband to leave because the examination may violate the patient’s right to intimacy.
According to the principles of medical ethics, in the case of diagnostic and therapeutic
doubts, the doctor should:
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.
Please indicate the condition under which an oncologist can limit the scope of
information provided to the patient with regard to his/her health status and prognosis:
When referring to the conscience clause, the physician is obliged to:
One of the major obligations of the physician is to keep any patient’s data and medical documentation in strict confidentiality. There was a case that after the patient had died in hospital, her adult sister showed up and asked the doctor for the patient’s hospital record to be made available to her. Under these circumstances, the doctor:
One of the major obligations of the physician is to keep any patient’s data and medical documentation in strict confidentiality. There was a case that after the patient had died in hospital, her adult sister showed up and asked the doctor for the patient’s hospital record to be made available to her. Under these circumstances, the doctor: