CAT 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chemotherapy, Palliative Care, Homicide

• School: UCSD
• Department: Culture, Art, & Technology
• Course: CAT 2
• Professor: Gerald Doppelt

Document Summary

Gruman: when integrating hope, solidarity, and emotion, medical paternalism may be justified in order to maintain the mental health of the patient. Gruman focuses on the human relations between the patient and doctor, in terms of trust, empathy, etc: goldman assumes that the doctor has scientifically based knowledge on the different treatment options, and that the knowledge is freely available. Once knowledge of outcomes, benefits, and risks are discovered and made available to doctors and patients, how would it affect the patient"s decisions: e. g. A patient is diagnosed with stage d colon cancer, after having a tumor removed. Gruman and his superior, keyes, can"t do anything about it, but still recommends a course of treatment option. Keyes tells the patient that chemotherapy is a viable option, but that it has some side effects that can be suppressed. Keyes is expressing a hopeful and optimistic message. Through this, he is expressing that he is well-intentioned and on the patient" side.