The AMA Code of Ethics subscribes to which of the following general principles?

While returning from a call, you are flagged down by a frantic family member of a 12-year-old male patient who reports him as being shot in the abdomen and inside the house in which she is standing. She states that the shooter is another family member who has since left the scene. What is your best course of action?

A) Go to the porch and have the patient brought to you. B) Carefully look for scene hazards and enter once you feel safe. C) Move the ambulance and wait for law enforcement to arrive. D) Cautiously enter the house and be ready to vacate if any hazards are found.

While examining a stained blood film under ´10, a significantly disproportionate number of monocytes are seen at the sides and in the featheredge of the blood film. What should be done?

a. Exclude these cells from the ´100 differential evaluation. b. Nothing; this finding is not significant. c. Make and stain a new slide. d. Add 2% more to the number of monocytes counted in the white cell differential.