MMI question: Ethical reasoning
Treatment a patient cannot afford
A patient needs a crown on a broken back tooth. When the dentist mentions the private price, she says she cannot afford it and asks to have the tooth taken out instead. What should the dentist do?
- Category
- Ethical reasoning
- Stations about what you think
- Suits
- Dentistry
- Topic
- Treatment a patient cannot afford
What this kind of station tests
A situation with two defensible answers, marked on the reasoning between them and not on which one the candidate lands on.
Written by MedAdmit. No UK medical or dental school publishes the questions it asks at interview, so this is not presented as one a school asks. The model answers, and the follow-up questions an interviewer asks, are part of the interview programme.