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1) State laws requiring the reporting of births, deaths, certain infectious diseases, and child and elder abuse and neglect may require the paramedic to breach the obligation to protect the patient’s: A) Right to self-determination B) First Amendment rights C) Confidentiality D) Autonomy 2) The four fundamental principles or values used to resolve problems in bioethics today include all of the following EXCEPT: A) Beneficence B) Maleficence C) Autonomy D) Egalitarianism 3) The obligation of a paramedic to treat all patients fairly is an example of the principle of: A) Beneficence B) Democracy C) Sovereignty D) Justice 4) Your paramedic partner is telling you about a situation in which he resuscitated a patient with a DNR, even though the DNR was present and available to him at the time he began resuscitation. He tells you he is justified because the patient survived for a year after the incident and suffered no ill effects from the cardiac arrest or the resuscitation efforts. Which of the following best describes the ethical approach used by your partner? A) Deontologicalism B) Consequentialism C) Ethical relativism D) Self-determination 5) The idea that each person must decide how to behave and that whatever decision that person makes is acceptable is known as: A) Consequentialism B) The deontological method C) Ethical relativism D) Moral positivism 6) When analyzing an ethical problem, the method in which you ask whether you would want an action performed in all relevantly similar circumstances is known as the: A) Impartiality test B) Interpersonal justifiability test C) Universalizability test D) Rationalization test 7) The most common situations involving allocation of scarce resources that paramedics will usually face are those involving: A) Administering expensive medications B) Deciding whether to terminate resuscitative efforts C) Triage in mass-casualty incidents D) Transporting patients to high-quality versus low-quality hospitals 8) When analyzing an ethical problem, the method in which you ask yourself whether you can vindicate your actions to others is known as the: A) Interpersonal justifiability test B) Rationalization test C) Impartiality test D) Universalizability test 9) If you receive a copy of a valid DNR order after you have begun resuscitation attempts, you are ethically obligated to: A) Cease resuscitation efforts B) Check the patient’s breathing and pulse before ceasing resuscitation efforts C) Continue resuscitation until ordered to stop by medical direction D) Continue resuscitation attempts until the patient is transported to an emergency department 10) Enforced racial segregation in the United States before the 1960s can best be described as: A) Illegal but ethical B) Legal but unethical C) Illegal and unethical D) Legal and ethical 1