Exam 1: Physicians, Patients, and Others: Roles and Responsibilities

Michelle Gold believes that truth-telling should be viewed as a dialogue between moral agents.

Mark Siegler argues that the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship can be maintained in modern hospital setting by making sophisticated use of new electronic recording keeping.

There is a cost to prizing the right of parents to make decisions about their children's best interests.

According to Onora O'Neill the autonomy of actual patients is limited.

To act autonomously is to have our actions be the outcome of our self-determining deliberations and choices.

Cullen and Klein argue that the principle of respect for persons grounds physicians' duties not to deceive their patients.

When parents fail to take reasonable steps to secure the welfare of their children, then doing so becomes a matter of interest to the state.

The California Supreme Court ruled that the therapists at the University of California, Berkeley, were not negligent in failing to warn Tatiana Tarasoff that one of her patients had threatened Tarasoff because a therapist has an absolute duty to protect her patient's confidentiality.

Mayor Bloomberg's attempt to cap the portion sizes of sugar-sweetened drinks in New York City was an example of the application of "personal paternalism".

According to Eugene Rosam, it is unacceptable to try to convince Jehovah's Witness parents to give up their beliefs.

Patients have historically, sociologically and psychologically held an equal and independent role with respect to physicians.

From a medical standpoint, children's interests can differ from those of their parents.

Autonomy is considered to be an absolute and unconditional right that cannot be infringed upon under any circumstances.

Anita Catlin argues that in cases where the patients are Jehovah's Witness children, physicians should explore alternative treatments not requiring the use of blood products.

The cause of Robyn Twitchell's death was so rare and complex that it is unlikely that she could have been successfully treated even if her parents had taken her to a hospital.