Ethics & Medico-Legal Practice

Chapter 9 of Volume 3, Skin, Burns & Surgical Principles. Revision notes and examiner-style viva questions with model answers for the FRCS (Plast).

23 viva questions in this chapter

1. What makes consent valid?
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2. What did Montgomery change?
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3. How do you assess capacity?
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4. The patient lacks capacity. What now?
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5. What about deprivation of liberty?
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6. The patient is 15 and wants surgery her parents oppose.
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7. Consent issues specific to plastic surgery
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8. You are operating and realise the wrong side has been marked and incised. What do you do?
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9. What is the duty of candour?
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10. How is a serious incident investigated now?
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11. A mother says her daughter is getting worse and nobody is listening.
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12. Your registrar made the error and is distraught.
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13. A written complaint arrives naming you. Talk me through it.
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14. What are the stages?
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15. A relative is angry with you in clinic. Right now.
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16. A 14-month-old is brought in with scalds to both feet. Mum says he climbed into the bath.
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17. What is the legal framework?
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18. Is there ever a duty to report rather than to refer?
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19. What about safeguarding adults?
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20. Your consultant smells of alcohol before the list.
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21. How do you raise a concern properly?
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22. A colleague’s results are worse than everyone else’s. What happens?
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23. Your SHO tells you a consultant is bullying her.
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