Ethical principles
This principle refers to telling the truth in all medical communications.
What is veracity?
Making decisions based on fairness, equity, and entitlement.
What is justice?
This form of euthanasia involves actively doing something to end a patient's life.
What is active euthanasia?
This model emphasizes mutual contribution and communication between doctor and patient.
What is the mutuality model?
This U.S. constitutional amendment is cited in abortion debates to define personhood
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The duty to keep promises and fulfill one's responsibilities is known as this
What is fidelity?
This type of justice compares individuals to determine who gets a scarce resource, like a kidney.
What is comparative justice?
Withholding life-sustaining treatment to allow a patient to die naturally.
What is passive euthanasia?
This model gives the doctor authority and relieves patients of some responsibilities.
What is the paternalistic model?
The landmark 1973 case that shaped the legal landscape of abortion
What is Roe v. Wade?
Keeping privileged information private is the foundation of this ethical principle.
What is confidentiality?
This method of distributing resources avoids comparisons by using random selection
What is a lottery system?
This form of euthanasia is done without the patient's consent, often because they are unconscious or unable to decide.
What is non-voluntary euthanasia?
According to Parsons’ model, patients must seek help and want this.
What is to get better quickly?
The philosophical stance that we can’t know when life begins.
What is agnosticism?
This principle supports the good of the many over the wants of the individual.
What is utilitarianism?
A physician provides a lethal drug for the patient to self-administer.
What is doctor-assisted suicide?
This act protects consumer rights and influences doctor-patient relations
What is the Consumer Relations Act of 1986?
This ethical principle allows a patient to accept or reject treatment after being informed of the risks, benefits, and alternatives.
What is informed consent?
These are the six prima facie duties violated by euthanasia
What are fidelity, reparation, gratitude, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence?