PT128.S3.Q19

PrepTest 128 - Section 3 - Question 19

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Summary

Scott concludes that the psychiatrist violated his oath by releasing tapes of a poet’s therapy sessions to her biographer after her death. Why? Because the oath says doctors can never divulge patient information, and it doesn’t matter that the poet wrote openly about personal things and told the psychiatrist he could do what he wanted with the tapes.

Notable Assumptions

Scott concludes that the psychiatrist broke his oath by releasing the tapes, even though the poet had died, shared personal things in writing, and gave him permission. He assumes that none of these reasons cancel out the doctor’s oath to keep information private.

To help justify his argument, we need a principle that satisfies this assumption by confirming that a doctor’s oath to keep a patient’s information private is not overridden by one or all of these factors.

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19.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

If a patient ███ █████████ ██ █████████ ██ ████ ██████ ███████████ █████ ███████ ██ ███████ ████ ██ ██ █ ██████████████ ███████████ ███ ████████████ ██ ████████ ████ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ ████ ███████████ █████████████

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