What is the patient’s medical problem? Is the problem acute? Chronic? Critical? Reversible? Emergent? Terminal?
TABLE 2-1 Four Topics Method for Analysis of Clinical Ethics Cases Medical Indications: The Principles of Beneficence and Nonmaleficence 1. 2. What are the goals of treatment? 3. In what circumstances are medical treatments not indicated? 4. What are the probabilities of success of various treatment options? 5. In sum, how can this patient be […]