Exam 4: Basic Principles of Health Care and the Nature of Rights in Ethical Discourse

Match each principle to the definition listed below. -A claim that justifies and creates correlative obligations

Paternalism, as practiced by clinicians, seems to be most in opposition to the basic principle of ____________________.

Review the principle of double effect found in the chapter. Based on the principle, could a nurse (with a written order) turn up the oxygen flowmeter to assist a dyspneic (having difficulty breathing) patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, knowing that oxygen, while making the patient more comfortable, often suppresses the respirations of these patients and might lead to respiratory failure? Explain your answer.

Dr. Kevorkian has called for a new health care specialty to be called Obiatrists. These specialists would administer drugs to assist clients in the dying process. Examine the basic principles of health care ethics and explain how each of the principles would relate to the new specialty.​

The principle that is most closely associated with concepts of fairness is ____________________.

Without adequate information regarding their condition and the treatment options, patients cannot exercise the important principle of ____________________.

One of the rights claimed in the Patient's Bill of Rights is that patients have the right to know and receive an explanation of their bill regardless of the source of payment. Write a policy statement that would be congruent with the correlative obligation associated with this patient right.

____________________ is the principle that deals with the need to tell the truth.

Define the term benevolent deception and provide examples of the type of cases where this suspect practice might be appropriate.

The legal principle of a right to privacy is matched to the ethical principle of ____________________.

The famous admonition "If you can't do the patient good, at least avoid harm," speaks of the two important principles, of beneficence and ____________________.

Review the Tuskegee case study presented in the chapter, and give specific examples where each of the basic principles of health care ethics were compromised and sacrificed.

Define the term fiduciary relationship. Explain how this concept guides the practice of health care provision.

The use of placebos is most problematic when you are considering the principle of ____________________.

Match each principle to the definition listed below. -A doctrine used to determine whether an action is morally defensible when it has more than one consequence, usually both favorable and ill

Perhaps the most famous moralized contractarian theory of rights that includes the concept of an original position comes from the work of ____________________.

Explain how actions known as paternalism, which are often criticized and always suspect, are, in their best sense, an application of the principle of beneficence.

List the seven basic principles of health care ethics.

Review the chapter section dealing with the principle of justice. In regard to distributive justice, select the method or combination of methods you feel is best suited to the distribution of health care and defend your choice.