Kinn's Administrative Medical Assistant
Chapter 7 Medicine and Ethics. Exams
Questions With Correct Answers.
A person who pleads the cause of another; one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal. -
answer✔✔Advocate
The act of getting possession of, obtaining, or acquiring; in medicine, this term relates to
obtaining organs for transplant. - answer✔✔Procurement
A classification of information that indicates the information is open for public review;
information or technology that is not protected by a patent or copyright and is available to the
public for use without change. - answer✔✔Public Domain
Consequences produced by a cause or following from a set of conditions. -
answer✔✔Ramifications
Acts of atonement for a wrong or injury. - answer✔✔Reparations
Oriented or directed toward social needs and problems. - answer✔✔Sociologic
A fraudulent practice in which provider services are billed for higher procedural codes than were
actually performed, resulting in a higher payment. - answer✔✔Upcoding
A devotion to or conformity with the truth. - answer✔✔Veracity
Thoughts, judgments, and actions on issues that have implications of moral right and wrong. -
answer✔✔Define "ethics"
Examine your own values, beliefs, and actions. - answer✔✔To be able to treat all people
ethically, you must first do what?
Keep personal and professional ethics separate. - answer✔✔What must you do to help patients
make their own decisions regarding their health care?
The Babylonians with the Code of Hummurabi. - answer✔✔Who started ethics in medicine?
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