Philosophy 2715F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Upper Respiratory Tract Infection, Michael Schumacher, Confidence Interval
27 Feb 2017
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Number your responses to correspond with the questions. Each response is independent of the others; may necessitate repetition. Quiz #3 on march 1st, after reading week. The right of self-determination means the patient has the right to refuse any treatment, even lifesaving ones. Authors of the concept of medical futility. Futility is a concept that allows physician to not offer futile treatment to patients and refuse demands for such treatment. [f]utility is a professional judgment that takes precedence over patient autonomy and permits physicians to withhold or withdraw care deemed to be inappropriate w/o subjecting such a decision to patient approval . A futile action is one that cannot achieve the stated goals of the action, no matter how: quantitative futility: treatment that can"t work. E. g. , antibiotics for a viral upper respiratory tract infection (urti: qualitative futility: treatment works in some narrow sense but it supports inappropriate ends. E. g. , continuing life support for a patient who will remain unconscious.
