According to Hardwig, it can be difficult in some cases to
identify who should count as the "family" when difficult
medical-decisions are being made. He suggests:
given that a significant number of people are much
closer to non-relatives than they are to their own direct
relatives, the definit...
According to Hardwig, it can be difficult in some cases to
identify who should count as the "family" when difficult
medical-decisions are being made. He suggests:
(1 Point)
given that a significant number of people are much
closer to non-relatives than they are to their own direct
relatives, the definition of family should be flexible to
include people who are 'close' to the patient in important
ways.
b. given that decisions often need to be made quickly,
the "family" should be anyone who is a relative and who is
actually present in the hospital and available to take part in
the process, even if they are more distant relatives.
given how much is at stake in a medical decision,
only the patient her or himself should be consulted, never the
family.
d. given how interconnected biological relatives are
(both biologically, emotionally, and financially), only direct
biological relatives should be included in medical decisions.
Question 2: In the essay "Involving Children in Medical Decisions",
the authors suggest that a "family-centered" approach
will:
(1 Point) would be an excellent approach, except that it would
be too difficult to implement in practice.
b. fail to respect how mature children should have the
same rights as adults by giving too much weight to family
concerns.
is the best approach, because it respects the limited
autonomy of children and also the responsibilities that family
members have to the well-being of the family as a whole.
d. will be problematic in modern society, since no one
has the same definition of "family," and since many children
do not have stable parental figures in their lives.
Question 3: In this course, we understand "competency" as:
something that some people have regardless of the
task in question, like when we say that someone is a
(1 Point) competent person "in general."
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, b. really as having to do with language ability. If you
can state your preferences in clear and coherent language,
then you are considered competent and Health Care
Professionals have to follow your decisions.
something everyone has by virtue of their being a
human being, whereas incompetence is a vice that sometimes
overshadows competency.
d. something that is dependent upon the task in
question. That is, the same person may be competent for one
task but not another one, or even not the same task at a
different time if the circumstance change.
Question 4:
In the article “Managing Care the Canadian Way,” Pat
Armstrong identifies ways in which:
(1 Point)
adopting an American “managed care” approach
would improve Canadian Healthcare.
b. the attempt to place a private system alongside a
public system (a two-tier system) leads to significant
problems (such as cases of “skimming” and a less caring
system of medical decision-making). Thus, Canadians
should protect their public system.
the best system would be a balance between
benevolence and autonomy, and so a hybrid system between
the Canadian and American models should be developed!
d. the long lines in hospital emergency rooms in Canada
are having a serious negative impact on the health of the
population in general.
Question 5: According to Edmund Pellegrino:
the commodification of health care may strike some
as a move in the wrong direction. However, the facts are
(1 Point) clear: private health care is cheaper and more effective.
Thus, health care should be thought of as a commodity, on
utilitarian grounds.
b. by paying doctors too much money, we have
inadvertently given them the idea that they should maximize
their profits. Thus, health care has become a business world
and we should slash salaries to return to the true values of
medicine.
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