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Ethics
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- 1Respect for autonomyhelping patients WITH CAPACITY to make their own decisions and respecting that decision
- 2Beneficenceacting in patient's BEST INTERESTS; promoting course of action best for patients
- 3Non-maleficencedo no harm; risks and benefits of treatments that may cause harm
- 4Justicefair distribution of limited time and resources in healthcare
- 5Consequentialismaction is right if it promotes the best consequences; only morally relevant features of an act are its foreseeable consequences
- 6Duty based/ Deontologicalduty to act in a certain way; certain acts are morally wrong no matter what. example of 4 principles approach
- 7Virtue ethicsfocuses on acting as a 'virtuous' person, with characteristics which allow a human to flourish
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- MBBS Medicine (History taking + Ethics) Flashcards on Ethics, created by qj f on 27/10/2016.
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