PDS Flashcards
Kubler-Ross Stages of Dying
- Denial
- Anger
- Depression
- Bargaining
- Acceptance
Somatization
Patient experiences and communicates body illness due to psychosocial stress
Melingering
Stimulates symptoms/injury to deceive and achieve a goal.
Munchausen’s syndrome
Habitual presentation of an apparent acute problem. Viable and dramatic story but the physical signs are false
Infantilisation
Parents care for their children by using explicit control of their behaviour and actions
Marginal benefit
The benefit from one more unit of output
Outcome criteria
Health gain, life expectancy, quality of life, circumstances and quality of services
Marginal cost
The cost of one more unit of output
Law of diminishing marginal returns
Each extra unit of input yields less additional output
Consequentialist principles
Priority of care should be given to those with the highest probability of medical success, require the least amount of resources and of greatest social wealth.
Egalitarian principles
No one should be saved if not all can be. Priority should either be to those of most need, on a first come first served basis or down to chance
Norman Daniels’s principle of Fair Innings
We should do all we can to ensure that all of the population reaches a fair age. It is less imperative to treat those beyond that age.
Non-voluntary euthanasia
Euthanasia without explicit consent of an individual due to it being unavailable, such as with a patient in a persistent vegetative state
Involuntary euthanasia
Euthanasia performed on a person who is able to give informed consent. Consent is not gained because they don’t want to die/weren’t asked
Physician-assisted suicide
Providing the means
