Pod med test 1 questions with complete solutions
What are the 8 goals of medicine?
Promotion of health and disease prevention
Maintenance/improvement of quality of life by relief of
symptoms, pain and suffering
Cure of disease
prevention of untimely death
improvement of functional status/maintenance of compromised
status
education/counseling re: condition/prognosis
avoidance of harm to patient in course of care
providing relief and support near time of death
What is the Thomas Aquinas' principle of double effect?
Every action has a good and bad effect. Your action should
bring about only the good and the bad effect will be unintended.
What four conditions must be satisfied for Thomas Aquinas'
principle of double effect
Action in itself must be morally indifferent or morally good
The bad effect must not be the means by which the good is
achieved
Motive must be the achievement of the good effect only
, The good effect must be at least equivalent in importance to the
bad effect
What are the two directions that addressing ethical conflicts tend
to take?
Principles and Virtues
What are the 4 cardinal virtues?
Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance
Define Prudence Wisdom
Capacity to make the right decision at the right time for the right
reasons
Define Justice
Strict habit of rendering what is due for others
What are the principles of informed consent?
Threshold elements or preconditions
information elements
consent elements
What are the two elements in Threshold elements regarding
informed consent?
competence or capacity to make medical decisions
Voluntariness
What are the three elements in information elements regarding
informed consent?
What are the 8 goals of medicine?
Promotion of health and disease prevention
Maintenance/improvement of quality of life by relief of
symptoms, pain and suffering
Cure of disease
prevention of untimely death
improvement of functional status/maintenance of compromised
status
education/counseling re: condition/prognosis
avoidance of harm to patient in course of care
providing relief and support near time of death
What is the Thomas Aquinas' principle of double effect?
Every action has a good and bad effect. Your action should
bring about only the good and the bad effect will be unintended.
What four conditions must be satisfied for Thomas Aquinas'
principle of double effect
Action in itself must be morally indifferent or morally good
The bad effect must not be the means by which the good is
achieved
Motive must be the achievement of the good effect only
, The good effect must be at least equivalent in importance to the
bad effect
What are the two directions that addressing ethical conflicts tend
to take?
Principles and Virtues
What are the 4 cardinal virtues?
Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance
Define Prudence Wisdom
Capacity to make the right decision at the right time for the right
reasons
Define Justice
Strict habit of rendering what is due for others
What are the principles of informed consent?
Threshold elements or preconditions
information elements
consent elements
What are the two elements in Threshold elements regarding
informed consent?
competence or capacity to make medical decisions
Voluntariness
What are the three elements in information elements regarding
informed consent?
