PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Decision-Making, Organ Transplantation, Lumbar Puncture
24 Dec 2017
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Exam hints: mills opinion on socretes + pig exam, fan and beauchamp reading. Waiver - the patients voluntary and deliberate giving up of the right to informed consent. Therapeutic privilege**exam** - the withholding of relevant information from a patient when the physician believes disclosure would likely do harm: patients condition is worse than originally expected, patient su ers from mental illness and information could worsen symptoms. : similar to the pregnant women because during the period of disorientation she is not of right mind and cannot make decisions. Case 3 chapter 5: teenager presents with west nile virus with multiple mosquito bites and mother insists spinal tap to ensure it, when the teen is interviewed alone he admitted that he believed he didn"t have. Wnv and would tell him why if it was kept in con dence - he was on drugs: this treatment was only supportive care but the mother was still insistent on the spinal tap.
