Discussion 7 – Legal and Ethical Obligations to Provide Care

Evaluate the ethical and legal ramifications involved in the termination or refusal of care and physician-assisted suicide. Discuss why informed consent may be controversial from the patient and family perspective. Provide examples and identify the ethical principles. Support your statements with logic and argument, citing any sources referenced.

Composed of a minimum of two – three paragraphs – at least 500 words.

Please use single spacing.

Include references as they are required, minimum of 2 articles.

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3 Paragraphs

refs and cite with attached sources

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The Hippocratic Oath is a fundamental tenet of the medical profession. Medical practitioners swear by it so that they can have a standard to act by in medicine: one that will always keep the best interests of the patients at heart. The discussion in this paper looks into how ethics in the medical profession interacts with dying. Naturally, the study and application of…………………

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