PHL100Y1 Study Guide - Test Case, Consequentialism, Harm Reduction

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Patients have a right to refuse treatment. Autonomy of the agent being able to choose on accurate information. Interference with autonomy if being given only partial information or inaccurate information. Diagnosis might lead to depression, suicide, harm reduction on quality of life. Patient may not be able to understand medical terms. Not telling will interfere with patient"s ability to choose treatments, life decisions, etc. Informed patients are better patients (ex: cooperating with painful/extensive treatments) If deception was revealed, will poison physician-patient relationship. Deception to benefit patient is wrong because it fails to treat the patient with respect. Because the stress of being sick can distort patient"s thinking and because they truth is subjective lack understanding of medical concepts, it is usually impossible to convey to patients the full medical truth. Patients hear selectively and with emphases not intended by the doctor. Placebo effect implies that deception can be effective.

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A patient takes a Snellen eye chart test at the optometristâsoffice and is told he has 20/100 vision.

(a) What type of ametropic eyes does this patient have?

(b) The patient was standing 6 meters from the Snellen eye chartduring his vision test. How tall are the letters on the smallestline that he can see clearly? What angle, in arcmin, is subtendedby the horizontal strokes of these letters?

(c) Are the results of this Snellen eye chart test sufficient forthe optometrist to determine an accurate eyeglasses prescription tocorrect this personâs vision to 20/20? Why or why not?

(d) At the end of the appointment, the optometrist gives thepatient a prescription for â2.0 D eyeglasses. What is the patientâsuncorrected far point?

(e) Without his new glasses, the patient can clearly read anewspaper held 10 cm from his face; the words became blurred if hebrings it any closer. What is the closest distance at which he canread his newspaper when wearing his glasses?

5.4 .. BIO Injuries to the Spinal Column. In the treatment of spine injuries, it is often necessary to provide tension along the spinal column to stretch the backbone. One device for doing this is the Stryker frame (Fig. E5.4a). A weight W is attached to the patient (sometimes around a neck collar, Fig. E5.4b), and friction between the person's body and the bed prevents sliding. (a) If the coefficient of static friction between a 78.5-kg patient's body and the bed is 0.75, what is the maximum traction force along the spinal column that w can provide without causing the patient to slide? (b) Under the conditions of maximum traction, what is the tension in each cable attached to the neck collar? Figure 5.4

You are working as a medical assistant at a proton beam facility, where high-speed protons are used to bombard cancer cells. The protons are accelerated with a cyclotron, which you find very interesting because of your background in physics. You are explaining this to a patient who has some familiarity with cyclotrons. She asks, “How many revolutions does a proton make in the cyclotron before it reaches its exit kinetic energy?” You are taken aback, both by the high quality of her question and the fact that you never thought of such a question before. You tell her you will try to get her an answer before she finishes her treatment today. When you are finished preparing her for treatment, you go into the cyclotron room and look at the machine. Only three numbers are available on the machine labeling:

The exit energy K = 250 MeV, the radius at which the protons exit, r = 0.850 m, and the accelerating potential difference between the dees, ΔV = 800 V. You go back to the patient prepared to give her a total number of times the protons go around the cyclotron before exiting.

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