Question 4: true!
question 5: i would say lifting weights is the correct answer.
Coming from someone who has experienced eating disorders…
-be extremely supportive and patient
-Avoid commenting on appearance or weight. People with eating disorders are already overly focused on their bodies. Even assurances that they’re not fat play into their preoccupation with being thin. Instead, steer the conversation to their feelings. Why are they afraid of being fat? What do they think they’ll achieve by being thin?
-Avoid giving simple solutions. For example, “All you have to do is accept yourself.” Eating disorders are complex problems. If it were that easy, your loved one wouldn’t be suffering.
HIPAA refers to the <span>Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. (You can give some background information about the act).
Now, to the main question. T</span><span>he steps a medical assistant can take to ensure HIPPA compliance in handling patient information are outlined as follows
1. Protected Health Information (PHI) should be kept secure and private (either on pass-worded computers or paper files and charts always safely locked up when not in use).
2. Keep strictly to the office policy, and ensure full implementation of laod down procedures. Refresher trainings may also be helpful.
3. Patients should be informed of their rights when their information is being taken and the medical assistant should support those rights.
4. D</span><span>on’t volunteer patient's information to outside companies/entities or allow them access to it, except with the patient's consent.
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