PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tauber, Paternalism, Bioethics
25 May 2015
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Phi 2396 lecture 4 summary the health care professional-patient relationship. If he admits to a serious illness, it opens him to being treated against his will. In addition we must consider the goals of medicine: To optimize the patient"s chances for a healthy life. There are also differences in how we react to different health care professionals. Alfred tauber: notes that we cannot categorize our relationship as consumers with health care. It is unfair to ask doctors to leave value judgments out of medical treatment they must articulate to a patient a series of value judgments to articulate to the patient to make decisions. And doctors cannot just follow patient wishes. Doctors make decisions about health care, and the patient is supposed to follow. Just as a parent knows what is good for a child, the doctor knows what is good for the patient. This was, for some time, the model used in medical practices.
