Ethics Flashcards
(122 cards)
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____ is a philosophical and practical science that deals with the study of the morality of human acts or human conduct.
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Ethics
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____ comprises data on the morality of human acts that are put together and arranged in order along with the causes and reasons by which said data are held to be factual thereby making a systematized body of knowledge.
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Ethics as a Science
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____ deals with the ultimacy of the cause, principle, and truth concerning the morality of human conduct in the light of human reason alone.
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Ethics as a Philosophical Science
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____ provides a body of knowledge which is not only a body that enriches and sustains the intellect with more learning but most importantly, a body of knowledge which, by nature of its learning, is applied in the performance of human conduct.
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Ethics as a Practical Science
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____ employs the power human reason which is purely a natural process. It is not based on the teaching of the Catholic Church or any systems of belief, nor it is based on the Bible.
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Ethics as a Natural Science
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____ is the science of human acts with the reference to right and wrong.
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Ethics
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____ is the study of the rectitude of human conduct.
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Ethics
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____ is the scientific inquiry of the principles of morality.
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Ethics
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____ is the quality of human acts where the acts could either be good or right, evil or wrong. This quality indicates and determines whether the kind of human act that is performed is good or bad.
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Morality
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TRUE OR FALSE.
Both ethics and morality deal with a human act or human conduct.
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True
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____ studies about morality.
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Ethics
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____ gives a perspective of what to study about, that i the rectitude of whether an act is good or bad.
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Morality
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____ provides with a quality that determines and distinguishes right conduct from wrong conduct.
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Morality
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____ pertains to the knowledge of what to study about.
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Ethics
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____ pertains to the application of knowledge.
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Morality
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____ provides learning about the morality of human conduct.
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Ethics
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____ provides ways in practicing what is learned.
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Morality
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____ is the “word.”
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Ethics
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____ is the “flesh.”
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Morality
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____ is the “theory.”
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Ethics
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____ is the “practice.”
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Morality
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____ is something that men create in their best moments to protect themselves in their worst moments.
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Law
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____ deals with the minimum standards of human conduct.
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Law
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____ deals with the maximum standards of human conduct.
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Morality
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Sources of Ethics/Moral Philosophy
1. Human reason
2. Contemporary and historical experiences
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____ is the primary source of ethics/moral philosophy.
Human reason
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____ seeks to set norms or standards for conduct. The term is commonly used in reference to the discussion of general theories about what one ought to do.
Normative Ethics
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# **Application of Ethical Theories**
Inquiries are made about how a medical technologist should behave
Normative Ethics
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# **Application of Ethical Theories**
What ought to be done in certain situations
Normative Ethics
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# **Application of Ethical Theories**
What type of character one should behave
Normative Ethics
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# **Application of Ethical Theories**
How it should be done in dealing with patients and the public, colleagues in the profession, physicians, and toward the hospital as a whole.
Normative Ethics
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# **Application of Ethical Theories**
Inquiries are made about how a medical technologist should behave
Normative Ethics
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____ is also known as Analytical Ethics.
Meta-ethics
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Meta-ethics is also known as ____.
Analytical Ethics
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____ does not deal with the substantive content of ethical theories or moral judgments but rather with questions about their nature, such as the question whether moral judgments are objective or subjective.
Meta-ethics
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# **Application of Ethical Theories**
Inquiries are made on the nature of the moral judgment, ethical statements, and attitudes of a medical technologist including its status, foundations, and scope of moral values.
Meta-ethics
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# **Application of Ethical Theories**
What is an ideal medical technologist?
Meta-ethics
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# **Application of Ethical Theories**
Is an ideal medical technologist a perfect medical technologist?
Meta-ethics
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# **Application of Ethical Theories**
Is the transfusion of unscreened blood unit ethically wrong or refusal of transfusion based on religious belief is ethically right?
Meta-ethics
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____ is also known as Practical Ethics.
Applied Ethics
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Applied ethics is also known as ____.
Practical Ethics
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____ is the application of normative ethical theories to practical problems. It is a definite application of ethics to a specific bioethical issue.
Applied Ethics
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____ is the field or tool in determining the quality of a human act.
Ethics
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____ refers to, in Socrates words, "how we ought to live" and why.
Morality
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Parameters to determine the human act is morally good
* The act must be good in itself.
* The act must be good in its end.
* The circumstances other than the end must be good.
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____ is performed by a person with full knowledge or intelligence and on his/her own volition and free will.
Human act
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Factors Affecting Human Acts
* Knowledge
* Freedom
* Voluntariness
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The absence of the factors affecting human acts will qualify as a ____.
Act of a Human
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____ means actus humanus.
Human act
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____ means actus hominis.
Act of a Human
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# **Human Act vs. Act of Human**
A medical technologist who acted under threat, duress, coercion, or compulsion.
Act of Human
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# **Human Act vs. Act of Human**
The acts of a medical technologist who lost his/her sanity during the course of employment.
Act of Human
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# **Human Act vs. Act of Human**
Benevolence and charitable acts of a medical technologist to needy and indigent patients.
Human Act
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____ refer to a new field devoted to human survival and an improved quality of life.
Bioethics
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____ is the study of the morality of human conduct concerning human life in all its aspects from the moment of its conception to its natural end.
Bioethics
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____ is the study of the morality of human conduct
concerning health and health care.
Health Ethics
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____ pertains to medical services, nursing care, and all other types of health services given by health care practitioners.
Health Care
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**TRUE OR FALSE.**
Health ethics is a part of Bioethics.
True
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**TRUE OR FALSE.**
Bioethics is a part of Health Ethics.
False
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____ is concerned about life only in relation to health.
Health Ethics
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____ is concerned not just about health but also about other fields in relation to life.
Bioethics
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____ regulates human conduct in the practice of health care.
Health Ethics
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____ regulates human conduct not only in the practice of health care but also in all aspects of human life.
Bioethics
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____ is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions.
Health Care
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____ is essential to the practice of health care for it provides knowledge of the morality of an act and serves as a guiding principle for health care practitioners.
Ethics
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____ is that from which something proceeds in any manner, whatsoever.
Principle
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____ refers to a fundamental rule of moral law containing certain truth from which knowledge of a definite moral action for performance proceeds along with the provision of solution to specific moral problems or issues.
Moral Principle
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
____ provides that good must be done either to oneself or to others.
Principle of Beneficence
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
____ is a fundamental moral principle that binds and urges everyone to do what is good and perform for good as a moral obligation.
Principle of Beneficence
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
____ provides that evil or harm should not be inflicted either on oneself or on others.
Principle of Non-Maleficence
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
____ is a fundamental moral principle that binds and urges everyone to avoid inflicting harm as a moral obligation.
Principle of Non-Maleficence
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
Sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect of bringing about a good result even though it
would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end.
Principle of Double Effect
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
____ is an act that is directly intended with an evil effect that is not directly intended though foreseen or foreseeable.
Principle of Indirect Voluntary Act
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
____ refers to the expression of one's responsibility to take care of, nurture and cultivate what has been entrusted to him.
Principle of Stewardship
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
____ refers to a moral principle by which certain actions are determined and deemed as just or unjust, as due or undue.
Principle of Justice
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____ is the rendering of what is one's due. A person who is justly doing an act to another person gives the latter what is his due.
Justice
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____ is a moral power of performing, of possessing, or of requiring something which is due.
Right
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____ is defined as a moral obligation incumbent upon a person of doing or omitting (avoiding) something.
Duty
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____ pertains to a fair scheme of distributing society's benefits and burdens to its members.
Distributive Justice
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What are the two alternatives in Distributive Justice?
* Utilitarian Alternatives
* Egalitarian Alternatives
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____ means maximizing strategies to achieve the greatest amount of good or minimizing strategies to reduce the amount of potential harm.
The Utilitarian Alternatives
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# **The Utilitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority to those for whom treatment has the highest probability of medical success.
Medical Success Principle
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# **The Utilitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority to the candidate who is of greatest immediate service to the larger group under the circumstances.
Principle of Immediate Usefulness
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# **The Utilitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority to those candidates who require proportionally smaller amount of resources and therefore more lives would be saved.
Principle of Conservation
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# **The Utilitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority to those who have the largest responsibility to dependents.
Parental Role Principle
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# **The Utilitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority to those believed to have the greatest general social worth thus leading to the good society.
Principle of General Social Value
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____ represent maintaining or restoring the equality of the person in need.
The Egalitarian Alternatives
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# **The Egalitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority to no one because not all can be saved.
Principle of Saving No One
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# **The Egalitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority to the candidates with most pressing medical needs.
Principle of Medical Neediness
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# **The Egalitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority to the most helpless or generally neediest in an attempt to bring them nearly as possible to the level of well-being equal to that enjoyed by others.
Principle of General Neediness
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# **The Egalitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority gives priority to those who arrive first.
Principle of First Come Rirst Served Basis
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# **The Egalitarian Alternatives**
The ____ gives priority to those selected by
chance or random.
Principle of Random Selection
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____ refers to a certain sense of pain or discomfort necessarily associated with one's submission for health care intervention.
Due Burden
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____ refers to a certain sense of pain or discomfort
brought about by a certain medical, experimental or surgical proceeding which is of no direct benefit to the subject. It may be deemed unnecessary as far as the subject is concerned.
Undue Burden
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# **Identify the Kind of Healthcare Burden**
Buying medicines at the pharmacy as prescribed
Due Burden
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# **Identify the Kind of Healthcare Burden**
The pain brought about by intravenous insertion and injection
Due Burden
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# **Identify the Kind of Healthcare Burden**
Donation of one’s organ
Undue Burden
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# **Identify the Kind of Healthcare Burden**
Paying for somebody else’s hospital bill
Undue Burden
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Cooperation comes from the Latin word "cum" which means ____.
with
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Cooperation comes from the Latin word "operari" which means ____.
to work
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____ is working with another in the performance of an action.
Cooperation
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
____ pertains to the evil of an action shared together by individuals in the achievement of an evil practice whose culpability may vary according to the gravity of the act partaken.
Principle of Cooperation
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# **Various Degrees of Cooperation**
____ consists of an explicit intention and willingness for
the evil act. The one formally cooperating categorically wills and intends the evil action.
Formal Cooperation
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# **Various Degrees of Cooperation**
____ consists of an act other than the evil act itself but
facilitates and contributes to its achievement. The one materially cooperating may provide means apart from the evil act itself which is used to carry out the performance of an evil act.
Informal Cooperation
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# **Various Degrees of Cooperation**
____ consists of direct participation in the performance of an evil act. The one directly cooperating gets involved by openly and straightforwardly taking part in the practice of an evil action.
Direct Cooperation
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# **Various Degrees of Cooperation**
____ consists of an act that is not intimately connected with the performance of an evil act as in formal and direct cooperation but whose effect may have an indirect bearing upon it.
Indirect Cooperation
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# **Various Degrees of Cooperation**
____ consists of an act that is intimately linked with the performance of an evil action due to its close bearing.
Proximate Cooperation
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# **Various Degrees of Cooperation**
____ consists of an act with a distant bearing upon or connection with the execution of an evil act.
Remote Cooperation
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
The whole implies the existence of its parts. The existence of parts indicates the existence of the whole. Parts as such should continuously be connected with the whole of which they are parts without which they cease to be.
Principle of Totality
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# **Moral Principles in Health Care**
Means that what an individual, lower or smaller group can achieve within his/her or its capacity should not be taken away and transmitted to the custody and performance of a higher or bigger group.
Principle of Subsidiarity
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____ is concerned with the standards and moral conduct that govern a profession and its members.
Professional Ethics
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The Code of Ethics for Medical Technologists was first published by the ____.
Philippine Association of Medical Technologist (PAMET)
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The Code of Ethics for Medical Technologists was first published in ____.
1968
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The Code of Ethics for Medical Technologists was first revised in ____.
1997
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Revised Code of Ethics for Medical Technologists
**Professional Regulatory Board of Medical Technology Resolution No. 72 series of 2022:** Code of Ethics of The Medical Technology Profession
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Code of Ethics of The Medical Technology Profession
PRB Medical Technology Resolution No. 72 s. 2022
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PRB Medical Technology Resolution No. 72 s. 2022 was published in ____.
September 13, 2022
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# **Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession**
Article 1
General Principles
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# **Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession**
Article 2
Responsibilities to Patients
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# **Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession**
Article 3
Responsibilities to Self and to the Profession
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# **Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession**
Article 4
Responsibilities to Colleagues and other Professionals
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# **Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession**
Article 5
Professional Relationship with the Health Product Industry
