 | Chapter Objectives
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- To explain how the fundamental ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and justice apply to medical ethics.
- To assess patients' rights with respect to self-determination and informed consent.
- To describe the characteristics of an optimal patient-caregiver relationship.
- To identify the consequences of withholding the truth from the point of view of both patient and physician.
- To describe the factors affecting truth telling in cases involving terminal illness.
- To evaluate modes of communication that facilitate being with someone who is dying.
- To evaluate the ethical issues involved in euthanasia.
- To explain how issues regarding competency affect decisions to withhold treatment from infants or comatose patients.
- To appraise one's own death in terms of advance directives.
- To evaluate the arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide.
- To identify the types, content, and purposes of wills.
- To explain the processes of probate and to evaluate the consequences of dying intestate.
- To assess the value to survivors of a comprehensive estate plan that includes trusts, life insurance, and other death benefits.
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