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22 Cards in this Set
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What is the major difference between Assisted suicide and Euthanasia (active)?
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Assisted suicide is death with the patient doing the act
Active Euthanasia is death with the physician doing the act |
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What is Withholding and Withdrawing Medical Treatment?
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Honoring the patient's right to be free from medical intervention
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What for sure separates Withholding/drawing treatment from PAS and Euthanasia?
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The death is due to the underlying disease.
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Is giving high dose opioids and sedatives euthanasia?
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No; it's good palliative care
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What if the patient dies as a result of the high dose opioids?
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It's still palliative pain relief
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What is key in differentiating death after opioid administration for palliation versus euthanasia?
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INTENT
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What is this called?
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Principle of DOUBLE EFFECT
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Where is the principle of double effect accepted?
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-Medical ethics
-Law |
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What does the hippocratic oath have to say about PAS and euthanasia?
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I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.
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What does the AMA code of ethics
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Physicians shouldn't intentionally cause death, and PAS is fundamentally INCOMPATIBLE with the role as healer.
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What do the Wisconsin statutes have to say about PAS and euthanasia?
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It is INTENTIONAL HOMICIDE and ASSISTING SUICIDE
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What do the Netherlanders have to say about PAS/euthanasia?
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It's all good
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What about Belgium
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IT's ok too
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Is Euthanasia legal in the US?
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no - in all 50 states
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Is infantacide legal in the US?
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no - prohibited by Baby Doe regulations
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What is the public opinion on whtether it's ok to help someone die?
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72% think it's ok
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What is the professional opinion?
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56% think it's ok
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In what 3 states have there been legal initiatives to legalize PAS? Which were successful?
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-Washington
-California -Oregon (successful) |
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Is there a constitutional right to PAS?
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no
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What do we have a right to, and what case illustrated this?
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Right to refuse life sustaining medical treatment
-Susan Cruzan case, had feeding tube removed. |
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How can a feeding tube be removed?
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It is a medical intervention
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What DID the constitution do for PAS?
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Decriminalized it, making it ok for individual states to legalize PAS
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