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A significant majority of today’s medical students:

When a government regulatory agency like the FDA  promotes the food industry instead of acting as a watchdog, this is called:

How many different ways can you choose 3 objects from a group of 7 objects?

What is the difference between a private health care system and a public one?  A) Who pays for health care B) Who provides the health care C) All of the above  

Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act: A) Requires family members of a patient with terminal illness to administer drugs to end the patient’s life B) Allows any patient who has been certified mentally sound to access medication to end their lives C) Allows physicians to administer medication to end the life of a terminally ill patient D) Allows mentally sound patients with a terminal illness to access medication to end their lives

Which argument about antibiotics in the food supply reflects the Precautionary Principle? A) The US beef industry says we should not reduce antibiotics in meat until scientific evidence about risks is certain  B) Europeans want to reduce antibiotics in the food supply because a we have good evidence that it is  harming human health  C)  U.S. consumer advocates say that antibiotics are unneeded because illnesses cannot cross between animals and humans anyway. D)  The FDA says that they are starting a study to investigate whether antibiotics in the food supply affect human health.

Historically, the American Medical Association framed health care reform plans as “Socialist” only when proposals involved government funding and delivery of care.

According to lecture and readings, which of the following powers do physicians still have today?   A) Provide you with an excuse for absences from school or work B) Determine their own prices without interference from government or insurance companies C) Provide access to prescription drugs D) Make the final decision about whether a patient is removed from life support E)  A & C F) All of these

Lyon and Mirivel (in lecture) found that drug maker Merck trained its sale force to increase physician liking and gain trust by doings things including:

Ramone argues that physicians should have honored Dax’s request to end treatment, because in this case, Dax’s suffering was too great for him to bear. Because Damon focuses on the outcomes of this particular case, we can say that his approach to moral reasoning is [Choice1]