Medical Ethics Overview
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What is the main focus of Medical Ethics?

  • Resolving moral problems in healthcare institutions
  • Judging proper action based on religious resources
  • Protecting individual life, religion, mind, property, and family (correct)
  • Analyzing options of possible ethical decisions
  • What is the main cause of Medical Malpractice claims?

  • Incompetence and negligence in interventional operative/surgical procedures (correct)
  • Lack of respect for patient's rights
  • Introduction of new medical technology
  • Emergence of new techniques in the medical field
  • What is the reason for Medical Ethics?

  • The difference between what can be done and what should be done (correct)
  • Introduction of new medical technology like life support equipment
  • Increased respect of patient's rights globally
  • Emergence of new techniques in the medical field
  • What is the objective of Medical Ethics?

    <p>Protection of individual life, religion, mind, property, and family</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of philosophy in Medical Ethics?

    <p>Provide judgments depending on studying moral life and analyzing of options of possible ethical decisions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What led to the realization of the importance of medical ethics as an academic and professional discipline?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the principle of medical ethics that involves doing all efforts to improve the health of the whole community by helping each individual patient?

    <p>Beneficence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which principle of medical ethics focuses on being fair in distributing benefits and burdens when providing services or dealing with people?

    <p>Justice</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the principle of justice consider when providing services with limited resources?

    <p>Distributive justice</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which principle of medical ethics involves respecting the wishes of the people, including confidentiality?

    <p>Respect for autonomy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe the feeling that anything found on examination or investigation will remain secret between physician and patient?

    <p>Confidentiality</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which principle of medical ethics deals with being fair in building and implementing rules and regulations?

    <p>Rules and regulations justice</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Under what condition is harm permissible according to the principle of non-maleficence?

    <p>To benefit, heal, or cure the patients</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Equal sharing of services is not always fairness' - which principle of medical ethics does this statement reflect?

    <p>'Distributive justice'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Harm is permissible if benefits can justify your action' - which principle of medical ethics does this statement align with?

    <p>'Non-maleficence'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Health professionals should balance between their primary responsibility towards their patient and obligations to the community' - this statement relates to which type of justice in medical ethics?

    <p>'Individual and community justice'</p> Signup and view all the answers

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