PHIL 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Organ Transplantation, White Blood Cell, Antigen
5 Aug 2016
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If there were enough resources to go around, everyone who needed them would receive them. These lectures take a closer look at the problem of micro allocation, and how organizations have sought to resolve these problems. Medical professionals, while honoring the moral obligations to extend life and relieve su ering whenever possible, must also recognize the limitations of transplantation in meeting these ends: the doctor-patient relationship and the problem of scarce resources. 1. the professional ethics for the role of doctor is characterized by the doctor-patient relationship. 2. but a doctor"s duty to put her own patient rst. Microallocation decisions involve bedside decisions about whether an individual patient will or will not receive a scarce medical resource. 4. when these decisions have been adopted and are part of the professional ethics, the doctor advocates for her own patient within these constraints. The god committee, the birth of bioethics, and unos.
