Essays Flashcards
Used to treat nausea in pregnant women
Thalidomide
Thalidomide
10,000 babies with birth defects
Withdrawn in 1961
Aging passed under radar people still have problems today
Doctrine of double effect
Giving drugs to reduce pain, even though they cause a patient to die sooner
Epistemic injustice types
Testimonial and hermeneutical
Who talks about the idea of epistemic injustice
Miranda fricker
Testimonial injustice
Speaker receives a deflated degree of credibility from a heater owing to the heaters prejudice
Hermeneutical injustice example
When gay people have difficulty making sense of homosexual desire as culture says it’s bad
Example of epistemic injustice
Robust quantitative and qualitative research from a range of countries has found that many doctors and medical students display uncertainty whether chronic fatigue syndrome actually exists, delays in treatment
What did the Hippocratic oath prohibit?
Use of a knife
Abortion
Euthanasia
Giving medical advice to family members
What is used instead of Hippocratic oath?
In 1948. The 2nd general assembly of the world medical organisation adopted the declaration of Geneva
Health= first priority
Junior doctor contract
DDRB proposing the removal of the GP registrar supplement which can compromise 31% of a GP trainees pay to encourage more doctors into hospital medicine
How many times has healthcare spending increased since 1948?
10 times
Why has healthcare spending increased?
More old people Reduction in family social care support Advancement in therapies and diagnosis Costs of new research Rising expectations
Notes on NHS funding
Direct and indirect ( pensions and social care needs when people live longer)
Who devised the four principles of medical ethics?
Beauchamp and Childless
