Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest

question 78

Multiple Choice

Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest Create a New Professional Norm? Physical Therapists and Workers' Compensation
Laliberté and Hudon compare conflicts of interest that arise between physical therapists and worker's compensation to those arising between sports medicine physicians and the athletes they treat. Both types of clinicians find themselves caught between offering the best treatment to their individual clients and the need to answer to the needs of the organization. Conflicts of type and length of treatments arise as well as opportunities to behave unethically that may eventually result in a new norm for the entire profession.
-___________ is compromised when third-party organizations take a paternalistic approach to medical treatment.

• A) Patient autonomy
• B) Organizational power
• C) Third-party autonomy
• D) Organizational hierarchy

Recognize the role and application of the Uniform Commercial Code in governing negotiable instruments.

Understand how negotiability affects the transferability and enforceability of instruments.

Explain the significance of fixed and ascertainable amounts in the context of negotiable instruments.

Recognize the importance of an unconditional promise or order to pay in determining negotiability.

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