SHOULD not BE PRIORITISED ACCORDING TO
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SHOULD not BE PRIORITISED ACCORDING TO
Health care should be available equally to each individual in society
The health practitioner must play an Inappropriate role of judging others
Conclusion
Everyone has a personal right to engage in risky behaviour
Group Members
FOR AGAINST
Undermining of the doctor-patient relationship:- Patients may lose trust & withhold information
- Utilitarianism: can the doctor really do the best for the greater good if the doctor-patient relationship is undermined?
Who does the principle of beneficence and non-maleficence apply to?
Against:Universality: If we wish to prioritise giving health-care based on whether the patient’s ill-health is self-caused, then all patient whose illness results from diet, employment in stressful/dangerous jobs, participation in dangerous sports etc., should be given lower prioritisation for health care. Given that any life is likely to involve some health-risk, where will we draw the line?Justice: as resources are limited, not everybody can be cured, and therefore priorities must be set.Utilitarianism: in order to do greatest good for greatest number, patient’s unhealthy lifestyle factors must be taken into account. Assumption: lifestyle factors may reduce the likelihood of successA pillar of utilitarianism is impartiality: everybody's happiness is treated equally.
Juliette Roex, Emma Lane, Kate Seagrim, Ned Young, Jaya Lindsay
organ transplants lifestyle
factors
Demand
Supply
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Who should receive the organ?
ForAgainst
Non-Maleficence
Respect for
Autonomy
Deontology
Beneficence
Utilitarianism
FOR AGAINST
Beneficence: to whom should we do good?
For Against
Universality
Respect for
Autonomy
Utilitarianism
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Universality
Non-Maleficence
Beneficence
Deontology
Justice
Utilitarianism
For:Egalitarianism: everyone has the moral right of equal access to health care.Deontology: duty to treat all patientsBeneficence: act for the good of the patientNon-maleficence: putting someone further down the list causes them harm.
- Patient has the right to make their own choices, even if they are unhealthy
- One should act in such a way that the rule underlying a moral choice is applied equally, to all circumstances
- A transplant could do more
good in a patient who does not
undertake risky behaviour
- The doctor’s duty is to treat patients, irrespective of the cause of illness.
- Patient has a right to make decisions for themselves- Refusing to treat a patient based on past lifestyle choices is doing harm
- Judgment by the doctor may
result in greater good for a
greater number
- Judgment by the doctor may
result in greater good for a
greater number