36. What is tiie iundamental purpose of patient confidentiality?
(A) Enhancing billing processes
(B) Promoting legal actions
(C) Ensuring patient trust
(D) Facilitating communication among healthcare providers
(E) Enforcing necessary punishment

32.(A) Cratain stories work so well as literary "cases" (B) The powerful affinity between literature and medicine goes back to ancient times (C) Often written by physician, these works may focus sharply on a doctor-patient encounter or an ethical dilemma in medical practice (D) These great works certainly belong in any canon of literature and medicine (E) Great literary worics are, almost by definition, complex

33.(A) Cratain stories work so well as literary "cases" (B) The powerful affinity between literature and medicine goes back to ancient times (C) Often written by physician, these works may focus sharply on a doctor-patient encounter or an ethical dilemma in medical practice (D) These great works certainly belong in any canon of literature and medicine (E) Great literary worics are, almost by definition, complex

34. What is the primary focus of the passage? (A) Medical procedures (B) Patient confidentiality (C) Leg^l obligations (D) Healthcare team communication (E) Su^ical details

35. What etiiical concern is mentioned in the passage? (A) Informed consent (B) Patient confidentiality (C) Billing procedures (D) Staff training (E) Hospital management

37. In situations of conflicting priorities, what must healthcare providers consider? (A) Strictly following legd obligations (B) Ignoring patient autonomy (C) Weighing potential risks and benefits (D) Prioritizing information sharing at all costs (E) Informing the Ministry of Health and Welfare

38. What is the challenge in balancing patient confidentiality? (A) Ensuring rapid decision-making (B) Enforcement of hospital policies (C) Ignoring legal obligations (D) Minimizing information sharing (E) Navigating conflicting priorities

39. What is the main concern addressed in the recent study mentioned in the news? (A) The environmental pollution caused by nanoplastics (B) The number of nanoplastics in bottled water (C) The number of plastic bottles in the environment (D) The synthetic chemicals in the digestive tract (E) The excessive packaging of plastic bottles

40. Why is "human hair*' mentioned in this article? (A) to illustrate the size of nanoplastics (B) to demonstrate the number of nanoplastics (C) to emphasize the harms to the body (D) to show the diverse shapes of nanoplastics (E) to show where nanoplastics may go to

41. What does the temperature of the body do to those nanoplastics? (A) It fecilitates the release of tiiese chemicals from the plastics. (B) It enhances the visibility of nanoplastics undraer a microscope. (C) It inhibits the mL ration of chemicals fix)m p lastics. (D) It accelerates lhe degradation of nanoplastics. (E) It increases the circulation of plastic particles in the bloodstream.

42. What is the primary focus of the study mentioned in tiie news? (A) Developing new antibiotics (B) Using the light in antibiotic treatment (C) Investigating bacterial defenses (D) Identifying drug-resistant strains of bacteria (E) Testing the efiects of turmeric on bacteria