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Test for the seminars presented on March 14,
2002.
Target Audience: This program
is intended for all surgeons who are involved
in the treatment of patients with cancer.
Accreditation: The Society of Surgical Oncology
(SSO) is accredited by the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to
sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
SSO designates this continuing medical education
activity for 1.5 hours in Category 1 on the
Physician's Recognition Award (PRA) of the American
Medical Association.
Note: If you attended the 2002 SSO Meeting in
Denver and had applied to receive CME credits,
you are not eligible to receive "duplicate"
credits for this program.
Please take this CME test and press the "Submit
CME Test" Button when finished.
1. Our primary obligation in palliation decisions is to meet
the patient's perceived need for pain and symptom control regardless of
its effect on other systems.
2. It is ethically sound to enroll a patient in a clinical
trial in which "clinical equipoise" exists such that there is
genuine uncertainty on the part of the expert medical community about the
comparative therapeutic merits of each arm of a clinical trial.
3. The severity of a complication can dictate the degree
to which a full explanation of the event should be given to the patient.
4. Respecting the important ethical principle of patient
autonomy requires that the physician respect the right of a patient to refuse
palliative or curative interventions.
5. Most patients do not want to know about surgical errors,
preferring to believe that the operative event was not associated with a
complication.
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