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Medical Ethics: Principle of Confidentiality
Medical Ethics: Principle of Confidentiality
Supposing only limited meds in the ICU and 10 of them Certain Conditions to meet to justify double
wanted to be admitted to the ICU. effect:
1. The intention of the act must be good
Criteria to choose – select on the chance of 2. The benefit must be greater than the harm
survival rather to the one with serious illness or at least equal
Ex. AIDS - young or old? – with greater chance 3. The act itself must be good or indifferent
of survival 4. The good effect must be sufficiently
Rich or poor? – you don’t choose in the richness desirable or outweigh the bad effect
but of survival
Ex. Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
Importance in the community? Ex. Mayor –
chance of being healed Organ transplant – requirement for the donor – donor
Evidence Based Medicine a basis for physician’s should not be harmed or injured as result of organ
judgement: removal
from journals, experiments as result of surveys Ex. Kidney Transplant – you can compromise the
Readings from different international studies anatomical integrity for functional physiological
integrity
Personal dimension of stewardship
PRINCIPLE OF TOTALITY
Religious/Christian teaching on stewardship:
The relation of the whole in relation to the parts
Person is created by God
of the whole
Created in the image and likeness of God
Prioritize the good of the whole by sacrificing
You’re life is a gift from God
the parts that will make it difficult for the whole
Respect life from conception to natural death
to function well
Social dimension: Ex. A deceased part of the body – sacrifice
(amputation of a gangrenous limb)
Person is a social being
Interaction with others since no man is an In case of Organ Donor – sacrifice the donor for
island the good of the beneficiary
Everybody should be your friend – opportunity
to be a member of the same class PRINCIPLE OF COOPERATION
Share what you have
Protect your friends In medical practice – Physicians
Ex. The other doctor that helps the main
Beneficence do good, be just, do not harm
physician is the one that apply principle of
Ecological dimension cooperation
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consists of an explicit intention and willingness
for the evil act.