首页
财务会计
医药卫生
金融经济
考公考编
外语考试
学历提升
职称考试
建筑工程
IT考试
其他
登录
职称考试
共用题干 Physician-assisted Suicide1.The Supreme Court's decisions on physician...
共用题干 Physician-assisted Suicide1.The Supreme Court's decisions on physician...
admin
2020-12-24
58
问题
共用题干
Physician-assisted Suicide
1.The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications forhow medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.
2.Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide,the Court in effect supported the medical principle of"double effect,"a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects一a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen一is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.
3.Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high dose of morphine to control terminally ill patients' pain,even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.
4.Nancy Dubler,director of Montefiore Medical Center,contends that the principle will shield doctors who until now have very,very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient medication to control their pain if that might hasten death.
5.George Annas,chair of the health law department at Boston University,maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose,the doctor has done nothingillegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death."It's like surgery,"he says."We don't callthose deaths homicides because the doctors didn't intend to kill their patients,although they risked their death.If you're a physician,you can risk your patient's suicide as long as you don't intend theirsuicide."On another level,many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.
6.Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide,the National Academy of Science(NAS)released a two-volume report,Approaching Death:Improving Care atthe End of Life.It identifies the under-treatment of pain and the aggressive use of"ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end-of-life care.
7. The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices(临终关怀医院), to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies,to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care,and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life. Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives trans-late into better care.
选项
The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication________.
A:help the dying end their lives
B:can be prescribed
C:the needless suffering of the patients
D:the helplessness of the patients
E:inadequate treatment of pain
F: prescribe a drug
答案
B
解析
本段的第一句decisions on physician-assisted suicide即是主题句,法庭对医生辅助自杀所做的决定。答案为C。
第二段中间讲到the medical principle of " double effect",医助自杀的双重效应:有益的和有害的两个方面,这也是本段的主要内容,所以选F。
第三段提到了一个实例,借此说明医助自杀带来的双重效果,医生使用高剂量的吗啡控制在帮助晚期病人减轻痛苦的同时,过高的剂量又会导致病人丧命。所以选项 A正确。
本段谈到了该原则对医生的保护,这些医生认为既然药物会加速病人的死亡,他们就不能给病人开足量的药物来减轻他们的痛苦,故选D。
法庭裁定,医生开出的高剂量的镇痛药只要是出于正当的医疗目的就是合法的(for a legitimate medical purpose),可以推断医生能够开处方。所以选择B。
第六段提到了NAS的两卷报告,提到Improving Care at the End of Life(改进临终关怀服务),即under-treatment of pain,可以看出临终服务的问题之一是对病痛医治的不足,故选E。
第六段中间的另外一个问题是the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying"。对于这个l'q题,医生应该受到惩罚,故应选选择C。
第二段第一句指出there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide,即医生帮助病人自杀是违法的,故选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://ti.zuoweng.com/ti/cmMQKKKQ
相关试题推荐
共用题干 EconomicReforminChinaMoreUSsinologistshaveexpressedconfidencei...
共用题干 EconomicReforminChinaMoreUSsinologistshaveexpressedconfidencei...
共用题干 EconomicReforminChinaMoreUSsinologistshaveexpressedconfidencei...
共用题干 EconomicReforminChinaMoreUSsinologistshaveexpressedconfidencei...
共用题干 EconomicReforminChinaMoreUSsinologistshaveexpressedconfidencei...
共用题干 EconomicReforminChinaMoreUSsinologistshaveexpressedconfidencei...
共用题干 EconomicReforminChinaMoreUSsinologistshaveexpressedconfidencei...
共用题干 TheJoyofLivingAloneMoreandmoreAmericansarelivingalone.Someli...
共用题干 TheJoyofLivingAloneMoreandmoreAmericansarelivingalone.Someli...
共用题干 TheJoyofLivingAloneMoreandmoreAmericansarelivingalone.Someli...
随机试题
税收调节作用主要通过( )等规定体现出来。 A、宏观税率和具体税率的确定
不属于对先天性永存瞳孔膜的描述是 A.残膜可呈丝状、索状、蛛网状,甚至膜状
(81-82题共用题干) 女,23岁,工人,进入诊室则喜形于色地向医生自我介绍
某患者头顶右侧外伤疑凹陷骨折,请从下面选出最佳摄影体位 A.上下方向轴位 B
刘某为甲期货公司从业人员,在得知乙期货公司给居间人较高的返佣后,私下将新开发的客
龋蚀显示液染色的龋坏组织是()A.软化无细菌感染的牙本质B.软化牙釉质C.感染的软化牙本质D.感染及非感染的软化牙本质E.以上均是
SS4G型电力机车劈相机起动后,当发电相电压达到()电压时,劈相机起动电压继电器283AK动作。A.比较B.额定C.相
关于雌激素的生理作用,以下哪项是错误的A.促使子宫发育,使子宫收缩力增强B.加强输卵管节律性收缩的振幅C.促使乳腺管增生、乳腺发育D.通过中枢神经系统有升
下列属于经济法中有关企业管理的法律是()。A:商业银行法B:产品质量法C:全民所有制工业企业法D:反不正当竞争法
某有限责任公司股东甲、乙、丙的持股比例分别为9%、9%和82%。公司未设监事会,乙任监事;丙任执行董事,甲发现丙将公司资产擅自低于市价给丙妻,严重损害公司...