People/Events Flashcards
1
Q
What major question did the Tarasoff Court Case bring up?
A
Do doctors have the right to break confidentiality to protect an innocent third party? [YES]
What are the standards to which breaking confidentiality are ok?
2
Q
Terry Shiavo
A
politicized idea of being in a vegetative state and death –> brought in republican and tea party influence
3
Q
Robert Veach
A
offered that simply the idea of being in a vegetative state is enough to be categorized as dead –> “irreversable cessation of the capacity of awareness”
4
Q
Dr. Kevokian
A
Aided in many assisted suicides and was eventually convicted of second degree murder after the death of his own ALS patient
