Reference no: EM133253800

1. What does the Hyppocratic Oath requires of the physician ?

2. What are 2 examples when confidentiality rights can be overruled ?

3. Who was Henrietta Lacks ?

4. What is medical paternalism ?

5. Is adequate disclosure the same thing as informed consent ?

(Truth Telling:)

6. How much doctors and nurses should tell their patients? In general, patients have a right to information needed to make good decisions.

7. Does this mean that doctors and nurses need to disclose every possible fact about a patient's condition, or some procedure, or chances for recovery?

8. May they ever withhold or strategically delay giving such information to benefit the patient and bolster her spirits?

9. Is staged disclosure over time a desirable and justifiable strategy in many situations?

10. Can Jehovah's Witnesses parents decide the fate of their child ?

11. Provider's autonomy : What are the four considerations that are relevant to the question of whether a health care provider has a duty to help a patient who needs assistance in carrying out a decision, or whether that provider can ever justifiably refuse to help ?

12. Give 2 examples of medical material cooperation/ complicity.