Ethics Flashcards
What is “Mental Health Legislation”?
Mental Health Legislation allows for detention of patients suffering from mental illness without their consent.
What is “public health legislation”?
Allows medical health officers to detain, examine and treat patients without their consent (TB)
For a psychiatrist, it is always …… to have a sexual relationship with either a current or a former patient.
unacceptable
What is emancipated minor?
a person less than 18 years old who is living and earning on his/her own.
In Canada, advanced requests for MAID are not…, but the patient can choose to apply for…. before death becomes reasonably foreseeable.
Possible
MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying)
سلسله مراتب برای تصمیم گیری در موردفردی که هوشیار نیست، به چه صورت است؟
Guardian of the Person > Power of Attorney > Representative appointed by Consent and Capacity Board > Spouse or partner > Child aged 16 and above == Parent › Sibling > Other relatives > Public guardian or trustee.
Who should get the consent from the family for donation of organs?
𝑶𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏- 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌
In non-emergency medical situations for a child, only… can provide or refuse consent for medical treatment.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔