MHS-2320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Pre-Medical, Brain Death, Meritocracy
27 Feb 2019
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Machines could reveal more of the symptoms than the patients could tell (could hide the symptom) - loss of communication. Medical education and isolation happening in the premed students in social life. Legislation: 1972 patient bill of rights aims to protect patients rights to privacy, truth, and impartiality. Kidney dialysis - more patients that needed treatment than available - deciding who gets it included outsiders - laypeople committee of 7 people decided based on factors such as what can they contribute to the society. Against first come first serve and chance. Outsiders had to come in and defining how death should be determined. Not trying to strip autonomy of doctors when kidney, but with heart there were more. When heart transplants emerged, it was decided that doctors have to define a clear standard for brain death to determine when it was appropriate to terminate treatment and use transplants - no more flexibility because of self-interest.
