Quiz 2 Flashcards
Confidentiaility
concerns patients imparting information to health professionals who promise, implicitly or explicitly, not to disclose that information with others.
HIPAA
m
Strong paternalism
the overriding of a person’s actions or choices even though he is substantially autonomous.
Priestly Model
a
Contractual Model
q
Elizabeth Bouvia
in the case bouvia v. superior court, gave competent patient’s the right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment.
Confidentiality as a decrepit concept
Siegler points out that in this age of high-technology health care, the traditional ideal of patient-physician confidentiality does not exist in practice. modern health care involves teams of specialties and they all require access to, and dissemination of, a great deal of confidential information about patients.
Tarasoff vs. Regents of the University of CA
the court held that duties of patient-psychotherapist confidentiality can be overridden when “a patient poses a serious danger of violence to others”
Interpretive Model
q
Thomasma’s three prominent reasons for telling the truth
it is important because it is a right, a utility, and a kindness.
Advocacy Model
q
Professional Autonomy
q
Weak Paternalism
paternalism directed at persons who cannot act autonomously or whose autonomy is greatly diminished.
PA Act 148
q
Professional
q
