MUST OWN INTERVENTION & REFLECTION: BASIC ISSUES IN BIOETHICS. DO NOT BID IF YOU DON’T OWN THIS BOOK!

Youwill submit a 5-page essay synthesizing course readings and outsideresearch into an articulate and cogent response to the followingquestion: are there occasions in the delivery of health care whendeception is warranted?

Must read:

• Munson: Chapter 3, pages 253 – 296

Based on your reading of the textbook, Scripture, and additional sources:

• Reviewthe following scenarios of medical deception provided and rank themwith commentary regarding appropriate behavior (most appropriate toleast appropriate):
  1. A physician intentionally submits faultyinformation to an insurance company in an attempt to help a sick patientpay for needed healthcare services.
  2. A physician recognizes thepatient has psychosomatic symptoms and prescribes a placebo pill inhopes that the emotional relief of the placebo will help the patientrecover (thus saving the patient from possible treatments which would bemore invasive and/or extensive).
  3. A physician does not providefull disclosure of a surgical procedure because he/she suspects thepatient is not emotionally stable enough to handling all the details ofthe surgery, treatment and recovery.
• Review the following scenarios and rank them with commentary regarding a physician’s ethics (most ethical to least ethical):
  1. Physicians accept pharmaceutical perks if they recommend a specific drug for treatment.
  2. Whenprescribing pain medication, some physicians may “undertreat” a patientif they sense their patient may have a propensity for addiction.
  3. Aphysician treating a patient with a terminal illness fails to disclosesecondary ailments/diseases which may arise (in an attempt to protectthe patient’s emotional stability and will to fight).
• Recountoccasions from your personal life experiences of being lied to/misledby a health care clinician and, in retrospect, comment on thecorrectness of this decision.
• Provide a rationale (in terms ofbiblical commandments, guidelines, or inferences) on whether or not aChristian clinician should deceive a patient.