16 Questions
True or false: Every member registered in the union’s lists must pay the annual subscription by the end of December of each year?
True
True or false: Physical therapists shall not perform any act that contradicts the dignity of the profession or with the requirements of honor and honesty?
True
True or false: A member may lend his name for commercial purposes in any form?
False
True or false: A member may request or accept a reward or wage of any kind in return for undertaking to prescribe specific devices for patients or to send them to a hospital, treatment center, or a specific place where prosthetic devices are sold?
False
True or false: It is permissible for the member to share a fee with any of his colleagues, except for someone who actually participates with him in the treatment?
False
True or false: A member may use unscientific means in practicing the profession?
False
True or false: A member may present a new method of treatment through mass media before its testing has been completed and its validity proven?
False
True or false: A member is allowed to refuse to treat a patient if it is not possible to have another colleague available?
False
True or false: A member should do everything in his power towards his patients, treating them with kindness and without discrimination based on social status or personal feelings?
True
True or false: A member is allowed to divulge the secrets of a patient that he has been exposed to by virtue of his profession?
False
True or false: A member may receive a fee for treating a colleague or the treatment of his wife and children?
False
True or false: A member may work in beauty centers or use his name in managing these centers?
False
True or false: While treating a patient, a member may refuse the patient’s family request to invite another colleague?
False
True or false: A member may treat a patient treated by a colleague in a hospital without the hospital administration's call to do so?
False
True or false: A member may place an advertisement with his new address for a period of six months at most in the place he left when changing the location of the treatment center?
True
True or false: A member may take advantage of his job to benefit financially from the patient in return for work that falls within the competence of his original job for which he is remunerated from another side?
False
Study Notes
Membership and Subscription
- Members must pay the annual subscription by the end of December of each year.
Professional Conduct
- Physical therapists must maintain the dignity of the profession and uphold the requirements of honor and honesty.
- Members must not perform any acts that contradict the dignity of the profession or its requirements.
Commercial Practices
- Members are not allowed to lend their names for commercial purposes in any form.
- Members cannot request or accept rewards or wages in return for promoting specific devices or services.
Fee Sharing and Referrals
- Members are not allowed to share fees with colleagues except for those who participate in the treatment.
- Members cannot refuse to treat a patient if another colleague is not available.
Professional Standards
- Members must not use unscientific means in practicing the profession.
- Members cannot present untested or unproven treatment methods through mass media.
Patient Confidentiality and Care
- Members must uphold patient confidentiality and not divulge secrets obtained during the course of their profession.
- Members must treat patients with kindness and without discrimination based on social status or personal feelings.
- Members are not allowed to refuse a patient's family request to invite another colleague.
Professional Boundaries
- Members cannot receive a fee for treating colleagues or their family members.
- Members are not allowed to work in beauty centers or use their name in managing these centers.
- Members cannot take advantage of their job to benefit financially from patients.
Advertising and Practice
- Members can place an advertisement with their new address for a maximum of six months when changing the location of their treatment center.
- Members must not treat patients treated by colleagues in a hospital without the hospital administration's approval.
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