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List three of Potts' harms.
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Reduced Pressure to Improve Curative or Symptomatic Treatment, Abandonment of hope, increased fear of hospitals/ doctors
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Pott's harm: Reduced Pressure to Improve Curative/ Symptomatic Treatment
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euthanasia will be an easy way out, reduced incentive to develop new treatments
RESPONSE: seems to have a pessimistic view of medicine |
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Pott's harm: Abandonment of hope
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there are sometimes miraculous recoveries which will never occur if euthanasia is adopted
RESPONSE: availability of euthanasia does not guarantee it will be chosen |
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Pott's harm: increased fear of hospitals/ doctors
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will increase deaths by preventable maladies (diseases/ ailments)
RESPONSE: adopting strict policies should adequately assuage (make an unpleasant feeling less intense) fears |
