A patient requests multiple cosmetic surgeries. At a certain point, the health care team questions if the overall harm that will result from continuing to do these procedures outweighs the benefit. This dialogue, weighing harms against benefits, is more related to which ethical principle?

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Nonmaleficence, the principle of doing no harm, is directly related to weighing the potential harms against potential benefits of a treatment or procedure. In this scenario, the health care team is questioning if the overall harm from multiple cosmetic surgeries outweighs the benefit, which is a consideration of nonmaleficence.

A Patient Requests Multiple Cosmetic Surgeries