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What is the topic of the Doctor-Patient Relationship all about? Explain to me what this module is focused on, try to cover the range of topics covered.

Below you will find a copy of this modules syllabus, this is what was focused on in class.

Health Care Ethics covers a wide array of topics and concerns, and given our current situation it is a very pertinent and important class to understanding one of the biggest sectors of American Society, and one of the most personally important moments of your life, the Health Care System. This class is designed as a top/down and inside/out overview of everything associated with questions of Health Care; and to help facilitate this there are 2 basic sets of topics we will be studying.



1. Questions of Ethics– Look an explore 3 of the most prominent and influential ethical theories of all time. Ethical theories provide the framework for adjudicating (deciding) questions of Ethics – Good or Bad. Now, all of us as Human Beings, possess some ethical framework, the only difference between you and Aristotle is you never sat down and wrote out everything you think is good and everything you think is bad, and most importantly WHY – WHAT ARE YOUR REASONSfor arguing this way or thinking X is good and Y is bad. The discussion and study of the varying theories throughout history regarding what prominent people have said is Good and Bad (and WHY – your reasoning), is the study of ethics. For example ask yourself – do you think it is ethical for everyone to be free? Now, most people will say yes. Simple enough, but, am I free to punch you in the face or pee all over you belongings? Am I free to abuse my kids, to steal, to sell my daughter into marriage? And so we have the groundwork of all ethical problems. We think it is ethical that people are allowed to be free, and yet, we think certain uses of our or other peoples freedoms can be “unethical,” ergo, we have the problem of ethics – what SHOULD people be allowed to do with their freedom and what should they not be allowed to do with their freedom and MOST IMPORTNTLY – WHY – WHAT ARE YOUR REASONS.



Now, in this class we will restrict these questions to concerns involving health, medicine, and social standards for conduct – so we will be looking at questions like
Say a child is in a coma and the parents want to “pull the plug”, would it be ethical for a doctor to override their freedom and chose to save the child, against the parents wishes? It is a tough question, would it be unethical for the doctor to allow the child to die?

The Second part of the class is looking at specific topics– we will cover 7 of them – Euthanasia, Socialized vs Privatized Health Care System, the question of Pharmaceutical Companies, questions of the Doctor-Patient Relationship, Paternalism & Autonomy, etc. This part of the class will involve taking the ideas from the first part, and applying the theories to these specific problems

Thus, by the end of this course, you will be familiar with three of the most important Historically significant Ethical Theories, and how these apply to different topics of health care.