Intro to POM

Question 1

What is consequentialism and what are its drawbacks?

Answer 1

Promotes best consequences
Actions that lead to good consequences can be wrong
Differentiating between intended and actual consequences

Question 2

What is deontology and what are its drawbacks?

Answer 2

Acting in accord with moral duty or principle and doing your duty
Consequences matter
Defining duties and duty hierarchy

Question 3

What is virtue ethics and what are its drawbacks?

Answer 3

Act as a virtuous agent would of in the circumstance
Defining what counts as a virtue
cultural specificity of virtues

Question 4

Review Beauchamp and Childress

Answer 4

Respect for patient autonomy
Benefience
Malfience
Justice

Question 5

State the topics of the four quadrant approach

Answer 5

medical indications
patient preferences
quality of life
contextual features

Question 6

explain medical indications

Answer 6

consider each medical condition and proposed treatment
How well and with what likelihood does it fufill medical goals
Futility

Question 7

Explain patient preferences

Answer 7

what does the patient want
Capacity/advocacy
Does patients wishes reflect informed/understanding/voluntary/continuing

Question 8

explain quality of life

Answer 8

describe patient QOL in patients terms and from care provider’s perspective

Question 9

explain contextual features

Answer 9

circumstances that can either influence of be influences by the decision

Question 10

State the steps involved in a structured case analysis

Answer 10

summarise the case/problem
state the moral dilemma
state the assumptions being made
analyse case
acknowledge other approaches at state preferred choice