Exam 2: Quiz 5

Question 1

A medical student believes that African American patients do not experience pain as intensely because they have thicker skin than white patients

Answer 1

Unconscious Bias

Question 2

In their article, Kimani Paul Emile et al mention this as a result that ensues from patient’s racist requests

Answer 2

Burnout, Discrimination on irrelevant grounds, Hostile work environment

Question 3

A pharmacist refuses to fill a patient’s prescription for Plan B because he believes it causes abortions and he is morally opposed to the practice of abortion

Answer 3

Conscientious objection

Question 4

Errors that occur in the medical clinic that result in bad outcomes for patients

Answer 4

Iatrogenic harm

Question 5

Terence Ackerman criticizes this interpretation of autonomy because it results in doctors being treated merely as technicians that must stay out of the way and simply fulfill the patient’s wishes

Answer 5

Noninterference

Question 6

A Spanish-speaking patient requests a doctor that can speak Spanish instead of the English-only doctor that enters the examination room

Answer 6

Concordance, Discrimination on relevant grounds

Question 7

A physician who does a procedure without a patient’s knowledge or explicit consent is committing this

Answer 7

Battery

Question 8

A patient refuses a life-saving medical intervention because she is afraid, depressed, and does not understand the full implications of refusing the intervention.

Answer 8

Impediments to autonomy

Question 9

The principle of respecting a patient’s autonomy by not imposing medical decisions or treatments on them without their informed consent

Answer 9

Noninterference