Chapter 6

Health-Care Ethics

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which company is the focus of the "$50,000 A Day, Not a Bad Payday" scenario?

a. Medicatron

b. Medtronic

c. Meditrue

d. Medisure

2. What type of medical products was the focus in the "$50,000 A Day, Not a Bad Payday" scenario?

a. artificial hips

b. heart pacemakers

c. blood pressure machines

d. products for back surgery

3. What type of work was performed which paid $50,000 a day?

a. heart surgeries

b. back surgeries

c. teaching of new surgery techniques

d. consulting

4. To perform one type of back surgery, what was the annual revenue generated by doctors in the United States based on the "$50,000 A Day, Not a Bad Payday" scenario?

a. $1 billion

b. $2 billion

c. $3 billion

d. $4 billion

5. Which of the following was not included in the lawsuit filed against the medical device company?

a. excessive remuneration

b. fraud

c. bribes

d. illegal perks

6. Which of the following is not an underlying value that should be followed by a health care professional?

a. beneficence

b. compassion

c. dignity

d. autonomy

7. Which underlying health-care value is based on the freedom for a patient to accept or refuse treatment?

a. Justice

b. Autonomy

c. Dignity

d. Truthfulness

8. Which underlying health-care value is based on the belief that decisions by the health-care workers are fair?

a. Justice

b. Fairness

c. Honesty

d. Autonomy

9. Which underlying health-care value is based on the belief that the patient should be aware of the benefits and risks of all treatments being offered?

a. Justice

b. Nonmalfeasance

c. Truthfulness

c. Dignity

10. Which underlying health-care value is based on the belief that every action taken by a health-care worker would not cause harm to the patient?

a. Justice

b. Beneficence

c. Nonmalfeasance

d. Honesty

11. Which underlying health-care value is based on the belief that every health-care worker always has the best interests of the patient in mind when decisions are made?

a. Justice

b. Beneficence

c. Nonmalfeasance

d. Dignity

12. Which of the following is not one of the principles of biomedical ethics?

a. Autonomy

b. Dignity

c. Justice

d. Beneficence

13. Which of the following is not a question that should be asked pertaining to bioethics?

a. Ownership

b. Commodification

c. Truthfulness

d. Reductionism

14. Which doctor-patient model describes when the patient and the doctor participate equally in all health-care decisions?

a. engineering model

b. priestly model

c. collegial model

d. contractual model

15. Which doctor-patient model describes when the doctor carries out the wishes of the patient?

a. engineering model

b. priestly model

c. collegial model

d. contractual model

16. Which doctor-patient model describes the assumption that the doctor will always do what is in the patient's best interest?

a. engineering model

b. priestly model

c. collegial model

d. contractual model

17. Which doctor-patient model describes when the patient and doctor enter an agreement which it is assumed that they both will be pursuing mutual goals?

a. engineering model

b. priestly model

c. collegial model

d. contractual model

18. The General Medical Council regulates doctors in which country?

a. Canada

b. United States

c. United Kingdom

d. Australia

19. Which President established the President's Advisory Commission on Health Care?

a. Jimmy Carter

b. Gerald Ford

c. Bill Clinton

d. George H. Bush

20. ACHE stands for:

a. American Clinical Hospital Executives

b. American College of Healthcare Executives

c. American Continuous Health Execution

d. American Classroom of Health Education

1. Does an apparent potential conflict exist among the six underlying values of medical ethics?

2. From a patient's perspective which doctor-patient model would you consider the most effective? Which one would you consider the least effective?

3. Is there any way to control the influence pharmaceutical companies have on the decisions made by doctors.