Medical Law 2022 UMED

A contract of employment in the hospital has been offered to a doctor. The employment is based on the co-called equivalent work time. This means that:

1) standard daily working time can be increased up to 12 hours;
2) standard daily working time can be increased up to 18 hours;

3) standard weekly working time is increased to 48 hours;
4) basically the time calculation period is shortened to 1 month;

5) basically the time calculation period is prolonged to 6 months.

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A doctor is going to do some experiment on animals. before launching it they should obtain the approval of:

an employer turns to his doctor employee, who works on the contract of employment, to sign a contract including the so-called non-compete clause.

What should the doctor do?

The World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki, the founding document

of modern medical ethics and medical law, states:

A homeless with clear symptoms of peritonitis was taken to a private hospital

admission room. The hospital is able to help the patient but it does not have the

contract signed with the National Health Fund (NFZ) for this type of medical

services. How should the doctors proceed?

is the doctor allowed to give medical advice at a distance?

Does the Code of Medical Ethics refer to euthanasia?

Are legally incapacitated people entitled to object to being admitted to the

hospital?

A patient dissatisfied with the way he has been treated demands the doctor hold

a consultation. The patient, other doctors, a priest and a homeopath healer who

has been “curing” the patient’s family for years should take part in the

consultation. According to the Code of Medical Ethics the doctor should:

Brain death was confirmed in a 25-year-old patient who did not want to become

an organ donor, a fact that was noted in the Central Register of Objections.

According to the Code of Medical Ethics the attending doctor should:

A doctor is to transfer a nucleus of the ovum to the cytoplasm of the ovum of

another woman. As a result of this in vitro fertilization a child free of the defects

associated with mitochondrial inheritance is going to be born. According to the

Code of Medical Ethics such an act is:

Is it a doctor’s duty to turn the attention of society, authorities and patients to

the importance of health care?

In accordance with the Act on Patients’ Rights and the Ombudsman for Patients’

Rights the doctor providing the patient with medical services is allowed to object

to the presence of patient’s beloved one while performing those services:

In the Polish law medical secrecy covers:

What does the term “therapeutic privilege” mean?

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.

The correct answer is:

According to the Act on the profession of the doctor and dentist, medical secrecy

after the patient’s death:

in accordance with the Act on Therapeutic Activities autopsy in principle is

carried out after at least:

Is a person whose psychological gender does not agree with their

registered-at-birth gender allowed to give their kidney to an unrelated person?

The procurement of tissues, organs and cells for transplantation from corpses can be carried out after:
1) identifying the permanent irreversible cessation of brain activities (brain death);

2) declaring death due to irreversible cardiac arrest;
3) declaring death due to irreversible respiratory arrest;
4) declaring death due to irreversible cessation of brainstem activities;
5) donor’s next of kin in the meaning of the Act on Patients’ Rights and the Ombudsman for Patients’ Rights do not object to the explantation.
The correct answer is:

The doctor while giving medical services to his patient finds out that they suffer from infectious, sexually transmitted disease. What should he do?
1) he should immediately pass on the information to the appropriate voivode, who can take a decision to isolate the patient;

2) he should force the patient to stay in place and immediately call the sanitary services;
3) he should inform the patient about the means that prevent the disease from spreading;

4) he has the duty to inform the patient of the necessity that their sexual partner consult a doctor;
5) he must immediately let all the people closely associated with the patient know and warn them about the threat.

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Many doctors have the title “doctor of medicine” embedded in their rubber

stamps. In light of the current law:

An old Latin maxim: “Salus aegroti suprema lex esto”, invoked in the Code of

Medical Ethics, means that it is the moral duty of the physician to:

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:

A woman whose only chance to survive is bone marrow transplant comes to the

hospital. Searching for the donor failed, but the test results of tissue

compatibility antigens indicate that her minor son could be the donor. Taking

bone marrow from the minor in order to transplant it to his mother:

According to the Act on the Professions of Physician and Dentist, the right to perform the profession of doctor and the right to perform the profession of

dentist (in other words, the medical license) is granted by:

The Code of Medical Ethics does not prohibit physicians from carrying out:

In light of Polish law the collection of cells, tissues and organs from human

corpses for their transplantation can be done if:

Does a child who turned 16 years of age have a right to full information

concerning their treatment?

is it allowed to apply direct coercion to the patient in the hospitals other than

psychiatric?

A Pole, a British citizen, passed matriculation examinations in Poland and on the

3rd of October 2012 started medical studies in Poland which covered 5500 hours

of didactic classes. They passed Physician Final Examination (LEK) in English. The

Regional Chamber of Physicians and Dentists is obliged to refuse them the right

to practice as a doctor in the situation in which:

Does the Code of Medical Ethics refer to the problem of determining the order

of medical services for patients?

Do deontological rules allow the doctor to initiate diagnostic and therapeutic

treatment without patient consent?

The Minister of Health issued a regulation in which the treatment of some

disease was described. 6 months later a doctor read a scientific publication that

without doubts stated that the treatment described in the regulation is harmful

to patients. According to the Code of Medical Ethics the doctor should:

A 13-year-old girl reports to the doctor office with her grandmother. During the

examination the doctor starts to suspect that the girl has been sexually abused

by her stepfather. The girl confirms this suspicion but asks the doctor to keep it

secret. In that situation the doctor:

Are doctors in their professional dealings allowed to consult bioenergotherapist

or natural medicine specialist?

Are doctors allowed to carry out medical experiments on pregnant women?

Are doctors allowed to intervene in human genome?

Which of the following state organs is to announce the Preventive Vaccination

Program for a given year?

According to the Act of 1st July 2005 on the collection, storage and transplantation of cells, tissues and organs in the case of donors under 18 years of age:
1) organ donation is not possible;
2) organ donation is possible only for siblings if there is a risk of loss of the future recipient’s life and obtaining the organ from the corpse is not possible;

3) bone marrow donation is not possible;
4) bone marrow or hematopoietic stem cells of peripheral blood donation is possible only for siblings if there is a direct risk of loss of the future recipient’s life;
5) bone marrow donation is possible for a straight-line relative.
The correct answer is: