A clinician who justifies not billing a poor patient for services rendered because "that's what a professional should do" is applying what ethical viewpoint?
a. Relativism
b. Formalism
c. Consequentialism
d. Virtue ethics
ANS: D
When the professional is faced with an ethical dilemma, he or she needs to only envision what the "good practitioner" would do in a similar circumstance.
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