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55. Case: What is My Obligation?
View Case Study: 55. Case: What is My Obligation?A family physician in a small, remote community assesses a patient, who is a local schoolteacher, as developing a post-partum psychosis. He feels he lacks adequate training or experience to…
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54. Case: Professional Role
View Case Study: 54. Case: Professional RoleWhile doing a weekday home visit to an elderly patient, a VON nurse in a small community finds the patient’s son at home. The patient has mentioned that her son…
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51. Case: Confidentiality and Privacy
View Case Study: 51. Case: Confidentiality and PrivacyJoanne Baker, a nurse practitioner in a small community, prescribed a partial opiate agonist to a young man, Brian, for treatment of prescription opiate dependence. Brian is talented and plays…
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50. Case: Overlapping Relationships
View Case Study: 50. Case: Overlapping RelationshipsDuring a routine physical examination at your rural practice, one of your teenage patients shares that he has seen another teenage patient using cocaine at your neighbour’s house. Some Values…
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49. Case: Reality Check?
View Case Study: 49. Case: Reality Check?A clerk and resident are frustrated after a morning of taking histories from and doing physical examinations of patients referred to the GI Clinic. As you (the attending clinic gastroenterologist)…
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48. Case: Shared Experience
View Case Study: 48. Case: Shared ExperienceYou have recently started working as an RN in cardiology at the local pediatric health centre. One of the first cases you are involved with hits a little close to…
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47. Case: Collegial Responsibilities
View Case Study: 47. Case: Collegial ResponsibilitiesYou are a pediatric critical care specialist working in the ICU taking care of a newborn infant who suffered a severe, prolonged reduction in blood flow to his brain at…
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43. Case: What’s My Responsibility?
View Case Study: 43. Case: What’s My Responsibility?You’ve been a physician at the local hospital for a number of years and greatly enjoy your practice. You get the chance to see a range of patients and have…
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