Midterm essay
MUST OWN INTERVENTION & REFLECTION: BASIC ISSUES IN BIOETHICS. DO NOT BID IF YOU DON’T OWN THIS BOOK!
You
will submit a 5-page essay synthesizing course readings and outside
research into an articulate and cogent response to the following
question: are there occasions in the delivery of health care when
deception is warranted?
Must read:
- Munson: Chapter 3, pages 253 – 296
Based on your reading of the textbook, Scripture, and additional sources:
- Review
the following scenarios of medical deception provided and rank them
with commentary regarding appropriate behavior (most appropriate to
least appropriate):- A physician intentionally submits faulty
information to an insurance company in an attempt to help a sick patient
pay for needed healthcare services. - A physician recognizes the
patient has psychosomatic symptoms and prescribes a placebo pill in
hopes that the emotional relief of the placebo will help the patient
recover (thus saving the patient from possible treatments which would be
more invasive and/or extensive). - A physician does not provide
full disclosure of a surgical procedure because he/she suspects the
patient is not emotionally stable enough to handling all the details of
the surgery, treatment and recovery.
- A physician intentionally submits faulty
- Review the following scenarios and rank them with commentary regarding a physician’s ethics (most ethical to least ethical):
- Physicians accept pharmaceutical perks if they recommend a specific drug for treatment.
- When
prescribing pain medication, some physicians may undertreat a patient
if they sense their patient may have a propensity for addiction. - A
physician treating a patient with a terminal illness fails to disclose
secondary ailments/diseases which may arise (in an attempt to protect
the patients emotional stability and will to fight).
- Recount
occasions from your personal life experiences of being lied to/misled
by a health care clinician and, in retrospect, comment on the
correctness of this decision. - Provide a rationale (in terms of
biblical commandments, guidelines, or inferences) on whether or not a
Christian clinician should deceive a patient.
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