PHL 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Blood Transfusion, Lifesaving, Virtue Ethics
25 Aug 2017
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Ethics in health care week 2 day 2. Bioethics in canada (p. 81-95; 109-115; 119 scenario one) Doctors should think of themselves as applied scientists, who must deal only with facts and divorce themselves from all questions of value. The role of physicians present the facts to patients, and then let them make their own decisions: physicians must not let their value judgements affects their actions in medical context. > this model provides no answers to these questions. Patients come to health care practitioners for. Decision making is placed entirely in the hands of health care professionals, and patients are expected to follow their orders. It was the dominant model of medicine. The model also suggests that both doctors and patients have obligations to share information the autonomy of both doctor and patient it seems to ignore some of the virtues that should.
