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):

    1. A physician intentionally submits faulty
      information to an insurance company in an attempt to help a sick patient
      pay for needed healthcare services.
    2. 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).
    3. 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.
  • Review the following scenarios and rank them with commentary regarding a physician’s ethics (most ethical to least ethical):
    1. Physicians accept pharmaceutical perks if they recommend a specific drug for treatment.
    2. When
      prescribing pain medication, some physicians may “undertreat” a patient
      if they sense their patient may have a propensity for addiction.
    3. A
      physician treating a patient with a terminal illness fails to disclose
      secondary ailments/diseases which may arise (in an attempt to protect
      the patient’s 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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