While you are alone and caring for an injured skier in the aid room, a fellow patroller calls and tells you that your own young child was just injured in the terrain park. Concerned for your child, you leave the patient's care unfinished and run to the terrain park. Your action could be viewed as:
a. a breach of ethics.
b. your duty to act.
c. denial of care.
d. abandonment.
Answer: d
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