PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Paternalism, Bioethics, Blood Transfusion
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Hcp has the duty of beneficence toward the patient, an obligation to use her medical expertise to do him good and avoid harm. Patient has the right to this skilled beneficence and to respect for his autonomous choices regarding what the provider does. Principles of autonomy and beneficence are frequently at odds. Autonomy a person"s rational capacity for self-governance or self-determination an individual"s power to deliberate about available options, to choose freely among those possibilities, and to act accordingly. Autonomy principle autonomous persons should be allowed to exercise their capacity for self-determination. In bioethics it is considered a fundamental standard that can be violated only for good reasons and with explicit justification. In the name of the autonomy principle, medicine has developed the doctrine of informed consent (to make sure principle is honored) Limitations on personal autonomy can be physical or psychological, obvious or subtle, justified or unjustified and generally accepted or controversial (read over text for examples pg 81)
