Medical Law Ethics and Bioethics for the Health Professions 7th Edition Lewis Test Bank
Test Bank for Medical Law Ethics and Bioethics for the Health Professions 7th Edition By Marcia (Marti) A. Lewis, Carol D. Tamparo, Brenda M Tatro, ISBN-10: 0803630301, ISBN-13: 9780803630307, ISBN-10: 0803627068, ISBN-13: 9780803627062
Chapter 1: Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
____ 1. Laws are societal, human-made rules that are advisable or obligatory to observe.
____ 2. Ethics is easier to define than law.
____ 3. Medical specialization means fewer people are involved in personal health care.
____ 4. Honesty and integrity are two traits required of the ambulatory health-care professional.
____ 5. Ethics are sometimes defined as morals, values, and codes of behavior.
____ 6. Discussion of law, ethics, or bioethics will include discussion of the others.
____ 7. Medical law addresses licensure of health-care professionals; it does not address client safety.
____ 8. Ethics is a set of moral standards.
____ 9. Since federal law permits abortions, a physician is required to perform abortions or risk being penalized by the state.
____ 10. The AMA puts forth a code of ethics that all health-care professionals must adhere to.
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 11. Laws are:
a. codes for behavior. c. only made at the state level.
b. obligatory societal rules. d. not meant to regulate medicine.
____ 12. Ethical issues include:
a. right to refuse immunization. c. personal rights only.
b. no legal implications. d. professional rights only.
____ 13. Bioethical issues:
a. have not changed in the past few decades.
b. come about when laws are passed.
c. cover only worldwide populations.
d. relate to biomedical technology and its practices.
____ 14. Factors that influence law, ethics, and bioethics include:
a. medical insurance and managed care. c. emerging medical technology.
b. potential for greed in health care. d. all of the above.
____ 15. Ethics is/are:
a. a set of legal standards. c. different in every culture.
b. not related to morals. d. universal rules.
____ 16. The economics of health care:
a. make health care available to everyone.
b. is, in part, driven by medical technology.
c. is unaffected by managed care.
d. is not influenced by medical specialization.
____ 17. Ethical and bioethical standards can be ____, ____, ____, and ____.
a. personal, organizational, institutional, worldwide
b. organizational, institutional, linked, ritual
c. personal, organizational, traditional, conventional
d. merged, grouped, blended, linked
____ 18. The three Codes of Ethics that apply to worldwide issues are ____, ____, and ____.
a. Confederate Code, Engagement Code, Ethics of America Healthcare Workers
b. Geneva Convention Code, Nuremberg Code, Declaration of Helsinki
c. Declaration of Helsinki, AAMA Code of Morals, United Nations Code
d. Nuremberg Code, Conduct Code of the Americas, Christopher Columbus Ethical Code
____ 19. Who dictates the ethics for an individual health-care employee?
a. The head provider in the clinic c. The health-care workers themselves
b. The hospital that owns the clinic d. The office manager of the clinic
____ 20. Which of the following influence the ethics of a health-care worker?
a. Gender of the worker
b. Geographic area in which the worker is employed
c. Age of the worker
d. Culture of the worker
