The health care professional working in an outpatient clinic notices that an older woman he is seeing as a patient in the clinic has multiple small bruises and burns on the inner aspects of the thighs. When the patient sat down, she did so slowly and seemed to wince. What should these signs prompt the health care professional to do first?

The health care professional working in an outpatient clinic notices that an older woman he is seeing as a patient in the clinic has multiple small bruises and burns on the inner aspects of the thighs. When the patient sat down, she did so slowly and seemed to wince. What should these signs prompt the health care professional to do first?

The health care professional working in an outpatient clinic notices that an older woman he is seeing as a patient in the clinic has multiple small bruises and burns on the inner aspects of the thighs. When the patient sat down, she did so slowly and seemed to wince. What should these signs prompt the health care professional to do first?


      a.  ask some more specific questions related to the home situation of the patient
      b.  immediately make a report to adult protective services
      c.  call a doctor into the room to make a report
      d.  accuse the caregiver of physical abuse