PHLB09H3 Final: Biomedical Ethics Final Exam Review
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Biomedical ethics exam review (1) the reason medical futility should not be used as a reason to deny treatment. Wicclair defends the idea that medical futility should not be used as a justification for physicians refusing life-sustaining treatment because it involves evaluative standards. Although there is a general consensus that patients and their surrogates can accept or refuse life- sustaining treatment, there is increasing support for the idea that physicians are not required to offer. The fetus has a moral status if we have to have some reason for destroying it. It is ironic that we have acquired the ability to detect and eliminate the medically unequal at a time in history when we have finally succeeded in removing much of the stigma associated with certain illnesses. The way we speak has allowed many to believe that one is the disease than actually has the reason.