Questões de Inglês

It is implied in the passage that:

Five doctors at a Brazilian hospital have been suspended after they were accused of covering for absentee colleagues by using fake silicone fingers with their prints to fool biometric machines. Globo television showed footage of a doctor touching her finger to the device, then using two fake digits to do the same for colleagues, and taking delivery of slips of paper indicat-ing they had in fact clocked in to work. That way it looked like there were doctors on duty when there was just one.

It had happened at Ferraz de Vasconcelos, in Greater Sao Paulo.

The woman told police six other doctors were in on the scam. "She says she was innocent because it is a condition they imposed on her to keep her job," said her lawyer, Celestino Gomes Antunes. Another television network said it was the head of the emergency room that ran the scam and that his daughter had not worked a day in three years but got paid all the time.

So far five doctors have been suspended as part of the investigation.

The mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, AcirFillo, said there might be as many as 300 hospital employees who do not exist, except for fake fingers with their prints, but who get paid anyway.

Fonte: http://www.france24.com -adapted.

The passage does not mention:

Five doctors at a Brazilian hospital have been suspended after they were accused of covering for absentee colleagues by using fake silicone fingers with their prints to fool biometric machines. Globo television showed footage of a doctor touching her finger to the device, then using two fake digits to do the same for colleagues, and taking delivery of slips of paper indicat-ing they had in fact clocked in to work. That way it looked like there were doctors on duty when there was just one.

It had happened at Ferraz de Vasconcelos, in Greater Sao Paulo.

The woman told police six other doctors were in on the scam. "She says she was innocent because it is a condition they imposed on her to keep her job," said her lawyer, Celestino Gomes Antunes. Another television network said it was the head of the emergency room that ran the scam and that his daughter had not worked a day in three years but got paid all the time.

So far five doctors have been suspended as part of the investigation.

The mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, AcirFillo, said there might be as many as 300 hospital employees who do not exist, except for fake fingers with their prints, but who get paid anyway.

Fonte: http://www.france24.com -adapted.

According to the passage it is correct to infer that:

Medical ethics 

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine. As a scholarly discipline, medical ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology, and sociology. The values that commonly apply to medical ethics discussions are:

• autonomy;

• beneficence;

• justice;

• non-maleficence;

• respect for persons;

• truth fulness and honesty.

Values such as these do not give answers as to how to handle a particular situation, but provide a useful framework for understanding conflicts. When moral values are in conflict, the result may be an ethical dilemma or crisis. Sometimes, no good solution to a dilemma in medical ethics exists, and occasionally, the values of the medical community (i.e., the hospital and its staff) conflict with the values of the individual patient, family, or larger non-medical community. Conflicts can also arise between health care providers, or among family members. For example, some argue that the principles of autonomy and beneficence clash when patients refuse blood transfusions, considering them life-saving; and truth-telling was not emphasized to a large extent before the HIV era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine (with adaptation)

The correct past form of the sentence ―Values such as these do not give answers as to how to handle a par-ticular situation…‖ is:

Medical ethics 

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine. As a scholarly discipline, medical ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology, and sociology. The values that commonly apply to medical ethics discussions are:

• autonomy;

• beneficence;

• justice;

• non-maleficence;

• respect for persons;

• truth fulness and honesty.

Values such as these do not give answers as to how to handle a particular situation, but provide a useful framework for understanding conflicts. When moral values are in conflict, the result may be an ethical dilemma or crisis. Sometimes, no good solution to a dilemma in medical ethics exists, and occasionally, the values of the medical community (i.e., the hospital and its staff) conflict with the values of the individual patient, family, or larger non-medical community. Conflicts can also arise between health care providers, or among family members. For example, some argue that the principles of autonomy and beneficence clash when patients refuse blood transfusions, considering them life-saving; and truth-telling was not emphasized to a large extent before the HIV era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine (with adaptation)

In the text, they are all adjectives, but one:

Despite a string of grisly incidents throughout North America, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared late last week that there is no evidence of a coming Zombie Apocalypse.

The CDC, based in the Atlanta area, has previously issued promotional materials on how to survive a zombie attack, but these were all “a tongue in cheek campaign to engage new audiences with preparedness messages,” according to a new post on the agency’s website. Following a series of ghastly incidents in Canada, New Jersy, Washington and Maryland, the organization was actually forced to address (mostly online) concerns about back-from-the-dead monsters feasting on the flesh of the living.

“CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms),” agency spokesperson David Daigle told The Huffington Post on Friday.

Zombie talk began May 26 in Florida after 31-year-old Miami resident Rudy Eugene stripped off all his clothes, attacked a homeless man and attempted to chew off his face. Eugene, naked and growling, only ceased his attack after police shot him several times, according to eyewitnesses.

A day later, a New Jersey man stabbed himself 50 times, cut out his own intestines and threw them at police.

By the end of the week a Seattle man had killed six people, including himself, in a shooting spree that started in a local cafe and a Baltimore student was charged with slaying and eating the heart and brain of his housemate.

To make matters even more suspicious, a bear was caught eating the corpse of a convicted murder last week in British Columbia, although until we hear otherwise we’ll assume it’s probably not a zombie bear.

Source: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/04/cdc-to-america-there-is-no-zombie-apocalypse/

The word “mostly” could be substituted without any change in meaning by: