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- Autonomy
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a person has right to decide what treatment is taken against you whether you want it or not
Right to refuse care
2 requirements
- Capacity
- Not being coerced
- Non-Maleficence
- Do no harm
- Beneficence
- moral obligation to take positive and direct steps to help others
- Justice
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treat similar cases the same unless there is a material reason to discriminate
Material reason?
- Deserves to be treated different: American Principles prevail
- Needs to be treated differently:
...Special talents or abilities that make them a vital contributor to society where we need them
...Past discrimination and does it impact their care today
...Misfortune: disability or mental impairment
- The conscious cause suit
- The law protects physicians for making them do something that they are against morally
- uniform parentage act
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donor is not the parent
..signed contract
..residence of the child
(varies from state to state) - preemptive imprisonment
- Some states allow for up to 9 months of confinement to protect a fetus from abuse
- Patient Self Determination Act
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Applies to institutions that receive Medicare/Medicaid (Same as those who apply to EMTALA)
provide information on admission about legal rights, documentation, discrimination, compliance (you\'ll do whatever you can to comply with their wishes)
- Double-Effect Doctrine
- It is wrong to intentionally harm someone (cause death) to produce a good result (relieve from suffering), but it is permissible to do something intended to produce a good result (release from suffering), even if the action leads to unintended but foreseen harm.