Chapter 9 Physician's Public Duties and Responsibilities

Question 1

Vital Statistics

Answer 1

Numbers collected for the population of live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, divorces, induced terminations of pregnancy, and any changes in civil status that occurs during an individuals lifetime.

Question 2

Guidelines for completing birth and death certificates

Answer 2

• type or legibly print all entries
• leave no entries blank
• avoid corrections and erasures
• provide signatures. Do not use rubber stamps or initials in place of signatures
• file only originals wit state registrars
• verify the spelling of names
• avoid abbreviations, except those recommended

Question 3

Vital statistics gathered by government officials

Answer 3

• live births
• deaths
• fetal deaths/induced abortions

Question 4

Information a physician must put on a birth certificate

Answer 4

• disease or injury that caused the death
• date and time of death
• if decedent was female, presence or absence of pregnancy
• whether or not an autopsy was performed

Question 5

Autopsy

Answer 5

a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death or to obtain physiological evidence, as in the case o a suspicious death.

Question 6

Reasons why its against the law for an attending physician to sign a death certificate

Answer 6

• possible due to criminal cause
• not attended by a physician within a specified length of time before death
• duo to causes undetermined by the physician
• violent or otherwise suspicious

Question 7

coroner

Answer 7

a public official who investigates and hold inquests over those who die from unknown or violent causes; he or she may or may not be a physician depending on state law.

Question 8

medical examiner

Answer 8

a physician who investigates suspicious or unexplained deaths

Question 9

forensics

Answer 9

a division of medicine that incorporates law and medicine and involves medical issues or medical proof at trails having to do with malpractice, crimes, and accidents.

Question 10

Public Health Statues

Answer 10

Inferred from the 10th amendment of the US constitution

Question 11

federalism

Answer 11

the sharing of power among national, state and local governments.

Question 12

State enforcement of public health law

Answer 12

• require investigation be conducted in infectious disease outbreak
• make childhood vaccinations a condition for school entry
• ban the distribution of free cigarettes
• institute smoking bans
• Involuntarily detain individuals who have certain infectious diseases

Question 13

Communicable disease reported

Answer 13

• diphtheria
• cholera
• meningococcal
• meningitis
• plague
• smallpox
• tb
• anthrax
• HIV and AIDS

Question 14

Reported if higher than normal incidence

Answer 14

• influenza
• streptococcal
• staphylococcal
• STI

Question 15

administer

Answer 15

to instill a drug into the body of a patient

Question 16

National Vaccine injury compensation Program (VICP)

Answer 16

a no-fault system designed to compensate those individuals, or families of individuals who have been injured by childhood vaccines.

Question 17

National childhood vaccine injury act

Answer 17

a federal law passed in 1986 that created a no-fault compensation program for citizens injured or killed by vaccines, as an alternative to suing vaccine manufactures and providers

Question 18

smallpox emergency personnel protection act (SEPPA)

Answer 18

a no-fault program to provide benefits and or compensation to certain individuals, including health care workers and emergency responders, who are injured as the result of the administration of smallpox countermeasures, including the smallpox vaccine.

Question 19

Requirements for documentation of vaccines

Answer 19

• the date the vaccine was administered
• the vaccine manufacturer
• the lot number
• the name, address, and title of the health care provider who administered the vaccine.

Question 20

Child abuse prevention and treatment act

Answer 20

a federal law passed in 1974 requiring physicians to reports cases of child abuse

Question 21

amendments to the older american act

Answer 21

a 1987 federal act that defines elder abuse, neglect and exploitation but does not deal with enforcement.

Question 22

Unborn Victims of Violence act

Answer 22

aka Laci and Conner’s act a 2004 federal law that provides for the prosecution of anyone who causes injury to or death of a fetus in utero

Question 23

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Answer 23

a federal agency within the department of health and human services that oversees drug quality and standardization and must approve drugs before they are released for public use.

Question 24

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Answer 24

A branch of the US department of Justice that regulates the sale and use of drugs

Question 25

Controlled Substances Act

Answer 25

The federal law giving authority to the Drug Enforcement Administration to regulate the sale and use of drugs

Question 26

prescribe

Answer 26

to issue a medical prescription for a patient

Question 27

dispense

Answer 27

to deliver controlled substances in some type of bottle, box, or other container to a patient

Question 28

Amount of time records are kept on controlled substances

Answer 28

2 years

Question 29

The role of a MA with compliance with DEA regulations

Answer 29

• check that all controlled substances are locked
• Remind physicians to keep thier black bag in a safe place
• keep all prescription blanks locked
• order prescription blanks
• report any behavior by patients that might show addiction
• verify all prescription