A usual afternoon at Mesa hospital, Dr. Debra enter her office and found the test result her submitted earlier that week for one of her long-term patient named Pat. She kindly asked one of the nurse to bring her a cup of coffee while she sat down and going over the result while waiting for her coffee. On the third page she found that patient Pat was diagnosed with terminal cancer, on top of her head she remembered that Pat specifically told her she doesn't want to know the result if it is anywhere close to the category of Alzheimer's disease or terminal cancer. At the moment, one of the nurse brought in her coffee and quietly sat it at the corner of Debra's desk and left the room due to Debra's leaden heart look. Dr. Debra called Pat without
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(36c1) According to Act utilitarianism, if Debra lie to Pat about her condition the pain or amount of burden on Dr. Debra would be fairly high with weighted consequences of lying to patient in medical field. Pat would only value minimal pleasure based on she would still believe she is still healthy with nothing to worry about as show in table 1. Contrary, Dr. Debra would not only eliminate the risk of jeopardizing her career by telling Pat the truth about her test result, but also able to suggest best treatments to prolong Pat's remaining time she have to be with her family and to adjust her mind set. Pat on the other hand would receive the maximal pain due to the detrimental result of acknowledging she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The difficulties with Act Utilitarianism is to factor how the family would value the pleasure and pain, to fill in the details I input the scores based on my personal thought. If Dr. Debra ought to hide the truth about Pat's result, Pat's family would not know anything about the result after all. The value for amount of pleasure and pain are value as zero. However, if Dr. Debra ought to tell Pat about her terminal cancer, their family would receive slightly less amount of pain. After Dr. Debra calculate the greatest happiness in her mind, she would choice to lie to Pat about her condition based on calculated maximum happiness her action would
(36c1) According to Act utilitarianism, if Debra lie to Pat about her condition the pain or amount of burden on Dr. Debra would be fairly high with weighted consequences of lying to patient in medical field. Pat would only value minimal pleasure based on she would still believe she is still healthy with nothing to worry about as show in table 1. Contrary, Dr. Debra would not only eliminate the risk of jeopardizing her career by telling Pat the truth about her test result, but also able to suggest best treatments to prolong Pat's remaining time she have to be with her family and to adjust her mind set. Pat on the other hand would receive the maximal pain due to the detrimental result of acknowledging she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The difficulties with Act Utilitarianism is to factor how the family would value the pleasure and pain, to fill in the details I input the scores based on my personal thought. If Dr. Debra ought to hide the truth about Pat's result, Pat's family would not know anything about the result after all. The value for amount of pleasure and pain are value as zero. However, if Dr. Debra ought to tell Pat about her terminal cancer, their family would receive slightly less amount of pain. After Dr. Debra calculate the greatest happiness in her mind, she would choice to lie to Pat about her condition based on calculated maximum happiness her action would