Bioethics week 1
Bioethics combines background and approaches from? - answer Philosophy, medicine,
religion, and law.
What is ethics? - answer Ethics is a general term for various ways of understanding and
examining the moral life?
What branch of philosophy is ethics? - answer the branch that deals with morals
What is bioethics? - answer The application of ethics to the field of medicine and health
care.
What is the mantra at the Hastings Center? - answer “Good ethics begins with good
facts."
What is a norm? - answer An accepted or Expected pattern of Behavior or belief.
What is futility? - answer Serving no purpose, completely ineffective.
What did hippocrates say about futility? - answer" We should refuse to treat those who
are overmastered by their disease, realizing that in such cases medicine is powerless."
What is non-beneficial care? - answera qualitative description in that the care may be
able to accomplish the desired end, but it is not deemed beneficial to the patient.
What are the 3 criteria that label something as futile? - answer1) there is a goal 2) there
is an action aimed at achieving that goal. 3) there is virtual certainty that the action will
fail in achieving that goal.
What are the 4 classes of medical futility? - answer1) quantitative or physiologic futility,
imminent demise futility, lethal condition futility, and qualitative futility.
Quantitative futility - answerif the past 100 cases of medical treatment failed, it should
be regarded as a futile treatment.
Quantitative futility case - answerJane Doe: 24 year old with terminal cancer. None of
the cancer therapy is working; doctors think any further treatment would be futile and
actually cause side effects.
Imminent Demise futility - answerDespite proposed intervention, the patient will die in
the very near future.
Bioethics combines background and approaches from? - answer Philosophy, medicine,
religion, and law.
What is ethics? - answer Ethics is a general term for various ways of understanding and
examining the moral life?
What branch of philosophy is ethics? - answer the branch that deals with morals
What is bioethics? - answer The application of ethics to the field of medicine and health
care.
What is the mantra at the Hastings Center? - answer “Good ethics begins with good
facts."
What is a norm? - answer An accepted or Expected pattern of Behavior or belief.
What is futility? - answer Serving no purpose, completely ineffective.
What did hippocrates say about futility? - answer" We should refuse to treat those who
are overmastered by their disease, realizing that in such cases medicine is powerless."
What is non-beneficial care? - answera qualitative description in that the care may be
able to accomplish the desired end, but it is not deemed beneficial to the patient.
What are the 3 criteria that label something as futile? - answer1) there is a goal 2) there
is an action aimed at achieving that goal. 3) there is virtual certainty that the action will
fail in achieving that goal.
What are the 4 classes of medical futility? - answer1) quantitative or physiologic futility,
imminent demise futility, lethal condition futility, and qualitative futility.
Quantitative futility - answerif the past 100 cases of medical treatment failed, it should
be regarded as a futile treatment.
Quantitative futility case - answerJane Doe: 24 year old with terminal cancer. None of
the cancer therapy is working; doctors think any further treatment would be futile and
actually cause side effects.
Imminent Demise futility - answerDespite proposed intervention, the patient will die in
the very near future.
