Medical Ethics Lecture Notes

Flashcards on medical ethics, covering key principles like autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.

__ is an important part of medical professionalism.

Guide decision making, interaction, and conduct with patients.

Violations of can have severe consequences.

Can threaten your job, medical license, and in extreme cases, constitute a crime.

What constitutes can __ from country to country.

Varies from country to country and within religiously affiliated institutions.

refers to the patient's right to make decisions for themselves

The patient's right to make decisions for themselves according to their own system of morals and beliefs.

is a legal term, while is a clinical determination

Incompetence is a legal term, incapacity is a clinical determination.

__ is the practice of making decisions for the patient without seeking their input.

Making decisions for the patient without seeking their input.

__ is a value in which the provider takes actions or recommends courses that are in the patient's best interest.

The provider takes actions that are in the patient's best interest.

__ is abstaining from any action that may bring harm to the patient.

Abstaining from any action that may bring harm to the patient.

The principle of means that unintended medical consequences, even if they're bad, are acceptable if the intended consequences are legitimate

Unintended medical consequences are acceptable if the intended consequences are legitimate and the harm is proportionately smaller than the benefit.

or __ is revealing all the pertinent details of a patient's medical condition to them

Revealing all the pertinent details of a patient's medical condition to them.

is the proper allocation of resources in a manner that's fair and just, but not necessarily equal.

The proper allocation of resources in a manner that's fair and just, but not necessarily equal.

__ is ensuring medical treatment or plans that are commensurate with the illness or with the goals of the treatment

Ensuring medical treatments are commensurate with the illness and that benefits outweigh the risks.