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Bioethics Exam 2 Questions And Answers
White Coat Day - - -
correct answer ✅Day you take the Hippocratic Oath


Hippocrates - - -
correct answer ✅-lived in 300 BC in Greece
-wrote an oath which has set the framework for current medical
oaths to be written


Hippocratic Oath - - -
correct answer ✅I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and
Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them
my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment
this oath and this covenant:


To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and
to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money
to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to
my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they
desire to learn it - without fee and covenant;


to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other
learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me
and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath
according to the medical law, but no one else.

,Bioethics Exam 2 Questions And Answers

I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to
my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
(last sentence= big maxim)


I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor
will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a
woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my
life and my art. (this paragraph controversial)


I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will
withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
(stones=bladder stones)


(next paragraphs not as much criticized)


Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick,
remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in
particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons,
be they free or slaves.


What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even
outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no

,Bioethics Exam 2 Questions And Answers
account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such
things shameful to be spoken ab


Pellegrino's Defense of the Hippocratic Oath - - -
correct answer ✅-Almost all medical schools have students take
some oath, mainly with a Hippocratic framework.
-Invocation of God reflects fact that 95% of Americans say they
believe in God
-Strong requirement for confidentiality and non-exploitation of the
weak
-Demands accountability to peers as well as patients
-Can be seen in context of virtue ethics: discretion, prudence,
generosity and reverence


Veatch's Criticism of the Hippocratic Oath - - -
correct answer ✅-Oath ignores patient autonomy and informed
consent... healthcare provider has parental role
-Oath encourages secrecy
-Oath ignores community aspect of health
-Oath contains outdated elements: bans abortion, surgery, and
euthanasia... all now legal
-Christians and Jews profess responsibility to God and community
instead of medical profession

, Bioethics Exam 2 Questions And Answers
-"Duty to the dying" can mean to not poison or to care for ill and
dying (christian perspective) but neither insists on doing all possible
to avoid death
-Catholic tradition says to not kill but not found in oath
-Christians have a more broad range of prohibited measures with
abortion compared to oath
-Main Hippocratic Principle (to benefit the patient according to the
physician's ability and judgment) clashes with other normative
ethics perspectives: natural law (do good and avoid evil) and
Kantian (to follow overriding duties and respect patient autonomy
or dignity)


3 Main Points in Hippocrates Has Vital Meaning for Physicians by
Herbert Ratner - - -
correct answer ✅1. A patient cannot be known adequately apart
from his environment
2. We treat an individual, not a universal
3. "Doing no harm" may mean taking patients off all their
medications if they are on more than 5!


List of Values Expressed in the Hippocratic Oath by John F. Brehany -
--
correct answer ✅1. Physician's office works in submission to God's
will and the fundamental goodness of human life

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