Yeah, that's one part of the Four Principles approach to medical ethics:
1) Autonomy - the patient has the right to automous decision making. 2) Benificence - doctors should strive for the best outcome for the patient 3) Non-malificence - doctors should strive to do no harm 4) Justice - resources should be fairly allocated with no one patient being privileged over another
Obviously, all those have interesting definitional arguements and I can provide examples when all 4 principles might support lying to the patient.
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Date: June 4th, 2010 04:36 pm (UTC)From:1) Autonomy - the patient has the right to automous decision making.
2) Benificence - doctors should strive for the best outcome for the patient
3) Non-malificence - doctors should strive to do no harm
4) Justice - resources should be fairly allocated with no one patient being privileged over another
Obviously, all those have interesting definitional arguements and I can provide examples when all 4 principles might support lying to the patient.