Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:

Peri Klass, M.D. "What to Do When the Patient Says, ‘Please Don’t Tell Mom’"

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Then answer the following questions:

1. What are some of the more serious situations that would demand a physician to inform the parent?

2. Dr. Klass separates her adolescent patients into two groups. What are they and how does she handle them with confidentiality?

3. What is the third group of children that she doesn't mention but implies by the ages of the other two groups?

4. Would this group ever have anything they mentioned be confidential?

5. Why are the middle school years more challenging?

6. What is the balancing act that physicians have to do when it comes to children patients?

7. What three questions may influence the balance?

8. What made the situation with the teenager drinking from the parents liquor so problematic?

9.How did Dr. Klass handle the situation with the seventh grader who was being bullied?

10. What does Dr. Ford mean by the phrase, "Your role as a physician is different than your role as a mother"?

Answer each question with a sentence or two unless it asks you to explain your answer. Be sure to indicate the number that corresponds to each question.

Finally, upload a document (pdf) with the answers to this assignment.