Deck 14: Bioethics Ethical Issues in Medicine

Question 1

Paternalism, as the name suggests, is that position that argues that health care professionals know only what they learn from patients.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

If doctors all agree that patient related-information is private then why is confidentiality an issue?

A)Doctors find it difficult to keep quiet.
B)Doctors get paid from the newspapers for releasing secret information.
C)Doctors are known for breaking confidences.
D)Protecting the innocent.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Bioethics means "life ethics."

Answer 3

True

Question 4

That doctors should tell their patients what they want to know and when they want to know it is referred to as the approach to truth telling.

A)paternalistic
B)patient's rights
C)moderate
D)worst

Question 5

In some cities in the US hyper kinetic children have not been allowed to go to school unless their parents agree to give them a drug that slows down their activity levels.

Question 6

The assumption behind informed consent is that

A)patients don't understand their condition.
B)doctors might abuse their trust.
C)doctors and nurses often do things against a patient's will.
D)in order to consent to a procedure a patient must be informed about it.

Question 7

How will the use of adult stem cells resolve some of the moral issues involved here?

A)Because they're older they can deal with it.
B)Because an embryo is not involved.
C)Because adult stem cells are more useful.
D)None of the above.

Question 8

So called is a technique used to deal with overeating, drug, or alcohol abuse.

A)brain surgery
B)"hot wax" treatment
C)carrot 'n' stick
D)aversive conditioning

Question 9

If doctors kept patient information strictly confidential there would be no moral issues.

Question 10

Those strongly in favor of experiments on both humans and animals argue that anything that advances scientific knowledge or aids humanity is justifiable.

Question 11

Stem cells have the potential to become any kind of body cell.

Question 12

The main moral argument against the use of human beings in experiments is that

A)humans do not make good subjects.
B)humans should not be used as a means to an end.
C)animals are less squeamish.
D)animals don't think or reason.

Question 13

Informed consent refers to a formalized procedure whereby patients consent to treatment usually in writing.

Question 14

The central view of those opposed to stem cell research is that

A)no good can come of it.
B)the slippery slope or Domino effect will make us like Nazis.
C)humans can't "play God."
D)the procedure kills the embryo.

Question 15

The engineering model of doctor-patient relations suggests that

A)the patient is the engineer of his illness.
B)the doctor is a qualified technician treating and improving the body-machine.
C)the patient is valued above all else.
D)doctor and patient are part of a team.

Question 16

Radical individualism is the view that some patients have very strong and extreme political views.

Question 17

Paternalism in medicine is best captured in the phrase

A)doctors know best.
B)patients know best.
C)nurses know best.
D)all of the above.

Question 18

A approach to human behavior control would insist that we don't know what the standard for normal behavior is.

A)behaviorist
B)antibehaviorist
C)Kantian
D)caring

Question 19

Behavior control in bioethics refers to technologies that alter a person's behavior with or without their consent.

Question 20

Sexually transmitted diseases do not have to be reported by law.