300 words for each question.
1)Kaufman shares a number of stories from actual patients involved in her research. She uses these stories to illustrate how patients struggle to make various challenging decisions in terms of life-saving healthcare measures and treatments. Further, she explores how we struggled between the time we have left prior to death and the quality of those days. She also points out how these “choices” are problematic and may not being entirely informed, autonomous choices at all.
Choose one of the stories (from anywhere in the book we’ve read so far) that stood out to you. Briefly summarize that story (1-2 sentences) and explain how you see the story connecting to Kaufman’s larger ideas of “health care drivers” and “ordinary medicine”.
Then, compare your understanding of Kaufman’s ideas and the patient story to one of the ethical theories. How does that theory apply to this story? In addition, what major moral principle most closely applies to the theory, Kaufman’s larger ideas, and the story you chose? In other words, which moral principle ties it all together and how so?
2) Whether pro-life or pro-choice, abortion lies at the heart of the patient-provider relationship, shaping decisions in a way that may prevent providers’ supporting patients when they need them most. Read the following article (https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/99479?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2022-06-28&eun=g1968228d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202022-06-28&utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition). What moral principle(s) might guide the situation here between patient and provider? Consider the issues herein and reflect about them in your post.
3)Choose one main idea from anywhere in the course content for this week and one main idea from Kaufman’s conclusion and relate them to one another. How do the healthcare drivers Kaufman talks about interact with issues in patient-provider ethics? How do the ethical theories and/or moral principles apply to this interaction (choose at least one)?
4)Last week you were asked to watch the Rosemarie Garland piece on societal biases coded into our ideas about disability. Consider something from her lecture that stood out to you, that connected with something we read or talked about in class, and connected with at least one major moral principle. Write a reflection that “connects the dots” between the Garland lecture, at least one other reading from class, and at least one major moral principle.
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