It is the health care professionals duty of care to act in beneficence and non-maleficence. To act in the way that best benefits the patient and to do no harm (“beneficence”, 2014). According to Entwistle, Carter, Cribb & McCaffery, (2010), In some circumstances it can be difficult for the health care professional to balance respect for autonomy with beneficence. The health care professional needs to respect the patients choices and decisions but they also need to act in the way that puts the best interests of the patient first, for instance, a patient who has a lung infection refuses to take antibiotics. It is the Doctors duty of care to provide the patient with antibiotics but it is the patients autonomous right and choice to refuse the treatment, or in the case of euthanasia, the health care professional must respect the patients choice, but uethanasia is illegal in this Contry, therefore the health care professional is unable abide by their wishes (Entwistle, Carter, Cribb & McCaffery,…