Schiavo Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Which of the following is TRUE of libertarians? correct answer: They favor government for defense and for limited public works. There is a breakthrough in cancer research and a new drug seems to cure anyone who takes it for a year, but it is very rare and expensive, so there is only enough for a few patients. Kantian ethical theory would favor allocating this drug according to: correct answer: a lottery. Which of these is FALSE about utilitarianism as a moral theory? correct answer: Vir...

Before the late 1960s medical ethics was primarily the concern of ______________ ethicists. Others were not interested. correct answer: Roman Catholic ______________ was a founder of Royal College (first to determine who could practice medicine). correct answer: Thomas Linacre Protestant Ethics: 1955 _______________ 1970 ________________ "Patient as a Person". correct answer: Joseph Fletcher, Paul Ramsey Philosophers focused on ________________ and _________________. correct answer...

BIOETHICS FINAL CASES, Matching terms Roe v. Wade (1973) ANSWER: The USSC held the state has a legitimate interest in seeing to it that abortion, like any other medical procedure, is performed under circumstances that insure the maximum safety for the patient -decide to alter standards-can have restriction in many ways as long as they were not undue to burden Baby M ANSWER: The court gave the right to the surrogate mother because she was the natural and legal mother and should not be ...

What are the four principles? correct answer: 1) Autonomy (Respecting decision making capacity) 2) Nonmaleficence (Avoiding causation of harm) 3) Beneficence (Providing benefits, balancing risks & costs) 4) Justice (Fairly distributing benefits, risks, costs) Ethics correct answer: Way of studying, examining, and understanding moral life Normative ethics correct answer: How we OUGHT to behave/do Non-normative ethics correct answer: Establishes what IS the case Descriptive non-...

WGU D050: History of Healthcare in America Questions and Answers 100% Pass When was healthcare first created in the United States? 1798 Act for Relief of the Sick and Disabled Seaman What was created in 1915? American Association for Labor Legislation... created in the model bill What was the precursor of Medicare and Medicaid? Social security passed in 1935 What are the three main goals of ACA? expand access to health insurance, reduce healthcare costs, support innovative delivery methods W...

When did bioethics emerge? correct answer: → Bioethics emerged in the 50s and 60s following the Nuremberg trials Issued Nuremberg code: 1st code of ethics in this field Coincided with Civil Rights movement - when parental, academic, political, medical, and military authorities were challenged Invention of life-saving technology such as ventilator or AED What did the patient-physician relationship look like before the emergence of Bioethics? correct answer: Less focus on patient autonom...

Purdy correct answer: "Conception can sometimes be morally wrong on grounds of genetic information, although the judgment will not apply to those who accept the moral legitimacy of abortion and are willing to employ prenatal screening and selective abortion." Risk (there are risks to procreate and therefore it shouldn't always be permissible. Purdy ) correct answer: a. Because of environmental conditions or poverty b. Because you live in a civil war/ lack of social services c. Beca...

WGU D050 - History of Healthcare in America QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Correctly Solved 2023 score A+ When was healthcare first created in the United States? *ANS* 1798 Act for Relief of the Sick and Disabled Seaman What was created in 1915? *ANS* American Association for Labor Legislation... created in the model bill What was the precursor of Medicare and Medicaid? *ANS* Social security passed in 1935 What are the three main goals of ACA? *ANS* expand access to health insurance, reduce hea...

HSM-542 Week 5 Discussion 2: Schiavo Case (Already GRADED A)

Jahi McMath Facts correct answers She Came Into the Hospital to Have Her Tonsils Removed, Fully brain dead after 2 opinions from hospital, McMath's Family Believes Jahi Is Still Alive, The Hospital Insists They Are Sympathetic, But Jahi Cannot Be Saved and she is transferred to Terri Schiavo foundation to be kept on life support Jahi McMath Considerations correct answers autonomy, non maleficence, beneficence, whose paying, hurting malpractice chances by not receiving death certificate/autop...