Ethics Midterm Flashcards
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what’s ethics
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how a person should behave (knowing)
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what’s morality
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value of human being (doing)
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aim of ethics
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to be good / act well in your profession
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what are the ethical claims
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- descriptive / empirical
- normative / prescriptive / evaluate
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define descriptive / empirical claim
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how the world is
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define normative / prescriptive / evaluate claim
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how the world should be
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describe personal ethics
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ethical values for situations in every day life
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describe professional ethics
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rules / guidelines used for professional life
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describe ethical reasoning
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the ability to identify, asses, and develop ethical arguments from a variety of ethical positions
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describe ethical argument
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an argument based on ethical theories
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how to develop an ethical argument
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Duty & Right (taking correct actions)
Character & Relationship (being good people)
Consequences (predicting best possible outcomes)
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how to decide what’s ethical
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obedience (compliance)
Imitation (copying)
Feeling / Desire (presentment)
Intuition (instinct)
Habit (practice)
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Core values in medicine & medical ethics
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Compassion (concern fro patient’s condition and distress)
Competence (scientific, technical, cultural, ethical abilities)
Autonomy / Self-determination (individual and collective devision-making procedures)
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Ethical code in medicine
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- help resolve disputes
- adhere to professional duty & maintain a clear conscience
- identify and ethical challenge and not make self look uninformed
- maintain patient respect
- maintain respectful relationships with coworkers
- maintain efficiency in decision making and care process
- reduce burnout
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what happens in absence of ethics
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- ethical violations
- medical errors
- patient feels their dignity isn’t repeated (they aren’t hear)
- lack of trust in doctor-patient relationship and the medical profession
- lack of adherence to treatment
- conflict of interest
- causing physical / emotional / financial / injury to patient through inappropriate behaviour
- doctors withholding / promoting treatments to meet personal or institutional interest
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modern issues in bioethics
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- designer babies
- dna banks
- genetic modification and agricultural activity
- human genome and associated challenges
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3 ethical theories
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- consequentialism (includes utilitarianism)
- deontology
- virtue ethics
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what’s consequentialism
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best end results
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cons of consequentialism
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- difficulties to predict end result
- difficulty in measuring and comparing the “goodness” of consequences
- choosing different time periods may produce different consequences
- ignores things we regard as ethically relevant
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what’s utilitarianism
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best end result for most people
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decision making method to utilitarianism
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- identify different actions
- determine benefits / risks of actions
- choose that w/ most benefits
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types of utilitarianism
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- act
- rule
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act utilitarianism
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principles of utility used to guide actions
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rule utilitarianism
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principle of utility used to make rules which in turn guide actions
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Utility & welfare maximisation
providing max amount of wellbeing for the most amount of people
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cons of utilitarianism
- difficult to know with certainty whether the consequences of our actions will be good or bad
- requires assigning values to the benefits / harms resulting from our actions
- severe limitations accounting for values such as justice and individual rights
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what's deontology
correct action if it follows the rules
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cons of deontology
- 1 set of rules not suitable for all cases
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pros of deontology
- simple to apply (=following rules)
- fits well with our natural intuition
- doesn't require weighing benefits --> avoids subjectivity and uncertainty
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types of deontology
- hypothetical imperative
- categorical imperative
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what's hypothetical imperative
do this in order to get that
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what's categorical imperative
do this!
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define virtue ethics
taking certain person's behaviour as an indication of their character
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4 cardinal virtues
- Prudence
- Justice
- Fortitude
- Temperance
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what's prudence
right reason applied to action
--> take counsel , judge , command
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what's justice
treat equals equally
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what's fortitude
moral courage to make right decision
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what's temperance
all decision made free from self-interest
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distinctive focus of virtue ethics
- considering character
- right acts for right reason
- golden mean (whatever is moderate is right)
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parameters of an ethical act
- self (are you ready to accept yourself)
- universalisability (I you can universalise and act and its still right, then its ethical)
- means (people are equal and deserve equal treatment and respect)
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Rule based ethical theory in medical practice
- doctor attends to each patient w/ same set of rules
- rules which are set before consultation and aren't permitted to be broken
- the moral acts of the doctors are to judged in terms of their conformity to rules, duties or obligations
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determination of healthcare allocation
- QALYs
- DALYs
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QALYs
generic measure of disease burden, including both quality and quantity of life live
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DALYs
measure of disease burden, expressed as the cumulative number of years lost due to ill-health / disability
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Gnome
to wit/ judge what departure from common rules is called upon (moral intelligence)
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What's dignity
basic values of human beings entitling them to respect
- being treated like somebody
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what does dignity include
- respect
- privacy
- autonomy
- self-worth
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when is dignity at risk
- sickness
- decline / toward death
- disability
- lack of capacity
- elderly
- childhood
- prison
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4 principles of healthcare ethics
- Autonomy
- Beneficience
- Non-maleficience
- Justice
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what's autonomy
self-rule (patient decides treatment)
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what does autonomy depend on
- capacity
- necessity
- risk to others
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what's beneficence
doing good for patients
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what's non-maleficence
avoid harm
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what's justice
treat equals equally
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what are human rights
respect for the person and their dignity
--> human right and moral rights are complementary
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what are physicians' legal rights
doctor's duties and obligations towards protecting citizens
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what's a clinical ethics committee comprised of
- admin.
- legal members
- medical ethics academics
- religious rep.
- lay members
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structured case analysis model
- summarise case
- state moral dilemmas
- state assumptions being made / to be made
- analyse case w/ reference to
- ethical principles
- consequences
- professional codes
- the law
- acknowledge justifiable ethical solutions and those that aren't justifiable
- state preferred approach w/ explanation
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what's consent
voluntary agreement
--> respects patient's autonomy (primacy of consent)
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what happens if patient is unconscious
- seek rep
--> if rep isn't present and emergency, presume consent given
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main idea of WMA Dec. on patient rights
- right to self- determination (autonomy)
- consent
- patient rights
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3 requirements for valid consent
- competence
- voluntariness
- information
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information
- procedures
- alternative (other treatment options)
- risks / benefits
- questions
- diagnosis
- prognosis
- uncertainties
- purpose of treatment
- bills
- conflict of interest
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consent = continuous
can change mind (must be repeatedly gained)
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types of consent
- explicit (actively given)
- implied (reasonably inferred but not directly expressed)
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respecting patient's autonomy
- preconditions
- information
- consent
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preconditions
competence / ability to understand and decide
--> voluntariness in deciding
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information
- disclosure of info.
- rec. of a plan
- understanding of info. and plan
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consent
- decision (in favour of plan)
- authorisation (of chosen plan)
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exceptions to requirements of informed consent
- patient voluntarily passes authority to physician
- disclosure of info. causing harm to patient
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what's capacity
ability to give permission to have treatment or to withhold permission and refuse treatment
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what does capacity comprise of
- understand (info. relevan to decision)
- retain (info.)
- use (decision making process)
- communicate (decision)
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what happens if patient isn't capacitous
- proxy-decision maker
- advance decisions (living wills)
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mental capacity act
- adults have rights to own decision
- everyone's encouraged to own decisions
- right to make unwise decisions
- proxy = best decision for patient
- proxy doesn't affect patient's freedom
