Medex PA Role Page
MEDEX Objectives Home: http://faculty.washington.edu/alexbert/MEDEX/
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
Fall
ERes PA Role (requires student login)
Each One Teach One PowerPoint Template
Guidelines for Ethical Conduct for the Physician Assistant Profession AAPA Link (Grace’s ethics class)
Winter
ERes (requires student login)
Links:
Crisis Clinic’s Community Resources Online Every Social and Health service available in this area. Also publish “Where to Turn” directories (a must for social services and great for the clinic).
The Cross culture Health care Program Library, books, culture and medicine studies, info, videos, cultural training, interpreter training, copy machine, cultural expertise with medicine, just ask (206) 860-0329
Hispanic Farm workers resource list
RussianImmigrant resources list
Asian
Recipes←Eat Me!
Presentation:
Intro PowerPoint Presentation click Slide Show in lower right-hand corner to play show
Tracy Tran
Food
Note that Web Presentations can't play sound while changing slides, which was one of the special features of our actual presentation. Click here to download entire presentation (29MB) (slightly lower resolution than presented)
Top Gun Photo
Combo Five ←Humor
Chicken Chow Mein ←Humor
Mahjongg ←Game
Spring
ERes (requires student login)
Email from Doug Brock dmbrock@u.washington.edu
Ethics Chats message from Elaine
Case Scenario Part 1:
You are employed by a private physician group that sees patients who are covered by a wide range of third party payors. (Your group is a "preferred provider" for many of these insurers.) This situation requires that you constantly check to see whether certain procedures or medications are covered before making diagnostic, referral and treatment decisions for your patients.
A common practice in your clinic (and in other similar clinics in your community) is to attempt to ensure the maximum benefits for the patients you see. As a result, you are instructed by the medical director, your preceptor, and the clinic administrator that it is appropriate to misrepresent, misstate or exaggerate patient symptoms, complaints, or family history in order to obtain referrals, diagnostic studies, and treatments that would not normally be approved by the insurers.
Questions
1. What is your response to this?
2. Can you think of any case(s) where this might be justified?
3. What might be the repercussions of this strategy?
4. As a PA, taking your orders from your precepting physician, what is your
responsibility for this decision?
5. What other issues are raised by this practice?
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Updated 7 Dec 2003