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Good Of My Patient: Who Gets To Decide?, Lauren Ruvo
Good Of My Patient: Who Gets To Decide?, Lauren Ruvo
Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice
Physicians play a crucial role in helping patients make life or death decisions. However, all healthcare professionals have personal beliefs and biases that influence these decisions. This paper explores how physicians are able to uphold the Hippocratic ideal of doing what is in the best interest of the patient while taking into account their personal beliefs and biases. The paper begins by analyzing existing schools of thought around how to do what is best for the patient. While there are many different views, this paper looks at the main three: the bioethical movement, the paternalistic approach to medicine, and the …