Paternalism is: - ✔✔interference with a person's liberty justified by an appeal to their own interests
Which of the following is not an example of a paternalistic law? - ✔✔Laws making robbery illegal
Which of the following are necessary for a patient to be medically competent? - ✔✔The patient must
have a stable set of goals and values, The patient must be able to communicate their decision, The
patient must be able to understand the effects of their decisions
The Principle of Informed Consent requires medical professionals to: - ✔✔generally respect and
follow patient treatment requests
Which of the following is not an example of a medically incompetent patient? - ✔✔An elderly patient
who refuses chemotherapy
The Expressed Wishes Standard of medical incompetency requires medical professionals to: -
✔✔act according to the patient's previous publicly available autonomous decisions
Which of the following must be disclosed to patients when seeking their informed consent? -
✔✔Details about whether the procedure is merely diagnostic, Details about the possible alternatives
to the procedure, Details about the risks and benefits of the procedure, Details about whether
procedure is invasive
A medical professional treats a patient impartially when they: - ✔✔treat the patient the same as how
they treat the other patients
According to FitzGerald & Hurst, a bias: - ✔✔is any negative evaluation of a group and its members
compared to other groups
An explicit bias is a bias: - ✔✔known to the person who has it and endorsed by them
An implicit bias is: - ✔✔which is not necessarily known or endorsed by the person who has it
FitzGerald & Hurst's study proceeded by: - ✔✔examining other published studies to determine what
the data collectively said
Emanuel et al.'s proposal is a form of: - ✔✔consequentialism
Which of the following recommendations from Emanuel et al. do they see as least important? -
✔✔treat people equally
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