Exam 2: Becoming a Patient: a Major Decision

Your health care agent cannot ________.

If you are not satisfied with your physician, ________.

Which is not true of medical errors?

When you need to go to a hospital for a surgery, you should ________.

-Look at the label above. What is the name of your primary health care provider?

When you chose your physician, it is important that ________.

A(n) ________ can act as your legal representative and has the right to make health care decisions for you if your doctor decides you are unable to make them yourself.

My primary health care provider can be ________.

How do inpatients differ from outpatients?

You can ask your doctor ________.

Doctors who pass an examination designed and administered by the specialty board are referred to as ________.

Your doctor recommends that you undergo a major surgery. You should ________.

As a patient, you should ________.

You can receive public information about your physician from ________.

It is your responsibility to ________.

For your first meeting with your physician, you should ________.

-Look at the label above. What is the maximum time you should keep this medication?

You are a very healthy 23-year-old. You complete a health care proxy and name your 19-year-old brother as your health care agent. Can he be legally your health care agent? What will be his responsibilities?

Your younger brother has cut himself with a rusty knife he found in the garden. The wound is not life threatening, but it is deep enough that it makes you concerned. You would ________.

Between 210,000 and 400,000 people die each year in the United States as a result of medical errors in hospitals. This number makes medical errors the ________ leading cause of death.