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1) Define Medical Ethics and Ethical Dilemma?
2) Describe the difference between Law and medical Ethics?
3) Evaluate ethical decisions made in a real life scenario from a Hospital?
4) What are the main ethical issues in healthcare?
5) Discuss three situations where confidentially could be breached?
6) List the rights of patients who are receiving health care?
7) Discuss and debate three ethical dilemmas in today's medical practice?
8) Describe advance directives and its legal implication?
9) Discuss the terms of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)?
10) Describe the principles of ethics?
11) What is the general policy in modern medicine about truth telling?
Assume that most patients do not want to know the full truth
It is impossible to anticipate every outcome, so always communicate the worst-case scenario first.
Physicians have a moral duty to be completely truthful about conditions and treatment
Physicians only need to be completely truthful about the treatment options they think will work best.
12) When may doctors be exempt from being completely truthful with their patients?
- When the doctor really doesn't want to give bad news.
- When the doctors feels like withholding truth might help the patient be happier.
- When the patient consciously states that they don't want to be told the full truth.
- Doctors are never exempt from being completely truthful.