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| What are the three pillars of success in medicine? |
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| Affability, Availability, Ability |
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| The three most important words in the practice of medicine are what? |
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| Engaging in any conduct intended to decieve or which has been determined as unethical or medical practic to public health, safety, or morals is the definition of what? |
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| True or false, unprofessional conduct is grounds for licensure denial or discipline? |
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| What does Touro define as academic dishonesty? |
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| Cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, knowingly helping or attempting to help others be dishonest |
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| In instances of a violation of the Touro code of conducts, with what adminstrative body must you deal with directly? |
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| In cases of a formal resolution of a code of conduct violation, a hearing is held how many days from notice? |
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| How long can you postponse a code of conduct violation formal resolution hearing? |
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| True or false, you can bring your lawyer to a committee hearing? |
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| False, but you can bring an advisor who happens to be an attorney |
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| The Nevada Board of Osteopathic Medicine NRS 633.511 details grounds for discipline for what violations? |
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| Unprofessional conduct, conviction state or federal law violation, malpractice, license suspension by any other jurisdiction, professional incompentance, failure to comply with medical malpractice reporting (45 days), failure to comply with CME annual requirements, failure to report licensee vilations within 30 days |
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| Unprofessional conduct is defined by NRS 633.131 as what? |
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| Making false statements on license application/renewal, faulure to use professional D.O. term, giving or recieving kickbacks for referrals, employing unlicensed person to practice osteopathic medicine, false advertising |
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| The federal anti-kickback statute prohibits what? |
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| Prohibits providers from offering, paying, soliciting, or recieving any remuneration in return for referral of patients or inducing purchases, leases, or orders |
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Unprofessional conduct is defined by NRS 633.511 as what?
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| Engaging in unethical conduct, abuse of controlled substances, habitual drunkenness, injection of any liquid silicone substance, willful disclosure of privileged communication, willful disobedience of reuglations of NSBOH, NSBOP, or NSBOM, violating any prohibition of NRS 633, failure maintain timely and legible medical records, making alterations ot medical records, filing a false report, failure to file a report as required by law, failure to make medical records of a patient available for inspection |
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| Unethical conduct is defined by NAC 633.350 as what? |
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| Engaging in sexual misconduct with a patient, abandoning a patient, willfully filing false reports in the licensee's practice, willfully failing to file a report required by law, failure to create medical records, prescribing a controlled substance in an excessive manner, failing to comply with terms in a diversion program agreement, failing to comply with an order of the board, engaging in any other conduct that the board determines constitutes unfitness to practice osteopathic medicine |
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| Licensure discipline may take what form? |
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| Probation, public reprimand, limit practice, revoke license, require participation in a drug or alcohol program, supervised practice, fine not to exceed $5k, community service, competence testing, additional training or CME education |
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| Who controls the priviledge in a physician-confidentiality agreement? |
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| What are the exceptions to physician-patient confidentiality? |
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| Tarsoff, self-defense. HIPAA exceptions |
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| Is honesty always the best policy? Is it justified to lie to a patient? |
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| It is permissable but there needs to be a strong basis for it and another physician must be consulted and sign off on it |
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| What are the conscience clauses in regulations? |
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| All healthcare workers, including physicians, can refuse to participate in anything on the basis of moral or religious objections |
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| What is the uniform definition of death law? |
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| Cessation of cardio-respiratory functions, whole brain death |
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| What is the hierarchy of consent? |
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| An agent of the deceased, spouse, adult children, parents, adult siblings, adult grandchildren, grandparents, an adult who exhibited special care/concern for the deceased, persons acting guardians at the time of death, any other person authorized |
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| What law prohibits the puchase or sale of organs? |
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| NOTA (National Organ Transplant Act) |
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| What is organization is used for the distribution of organs? |
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| United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) |
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| What are the steps for recieving an organ from UNOS? |
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| Potential recipient placed on UNOS list for an organ, matching patients first locally, then regionally, the nationally |
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| How can living wills determines eligibility of being an organ donor? |
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| Can give consent for the withdrawal of life support, can designate anoter to make the decision, can explicitly state whether the individual wishes to be an organ donor |
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| What differentiates a durable power of attorney from designation as an advocate in a living will? |
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| Requires witnesses, notarization, comes with much wider powers |
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| What is a revocable trust? |
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| A legal statement of distribution of assets following death but that can be ammended by an appointed settlor |
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| What is a irrevocable trust? |
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| Similar to a irrevocable trust that cannot be amended |
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| What is a testamentary trust? |
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| A trust created in an individual's will |
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| Does the fact that the % of the USA's GDP that goes into healthcare is considerably higher than other countries lead to a higher life expectancy in the US? |
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| What kind of questions are dealt with by healthcare "rationing" by the government? |
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| Who is covered, what is covered, what is necessary, when is it covered |
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