Final Flashcards
Veterinary professionalism
Aspire to altruism, accountability, and service, excellence, honor, and integrity and respect for others
Commitment to highest standards of excellence in practice of medicine and in generation and dissemination of knowledge
Commitment to sustain the interests and welfare of patients
Commitment to be responsive to the health needs of society
Benefits of social media
Free tool for business promotion, networking and relationship building
Helps maintain contact with current clients and new clients and provide information
Provides a greater internet presence
Risks of social media
More information is disclosed about people
Revealed public sharing of information that could potentially cause patient upset
Breaches of confidentiality
Cause or profane remarks
Excessive drinking
Venting about others
Whining about work
Social media guidelines
Non-maleficence: to do no harm
Beneficence: to promote good
Autonomy: to exercise choice
Justice: to be fair
Major philosophical positions
Contractarian Utilitarian Relational Animal rights Respect for nature
Contractarian
Mutual agreements or contracts between people
Utilitarian
Both animals and humans deserve moral considerations
Relational
Depends on their relationship or closeness to us
Animal Rights
Whateverr the circumstances, we ar not permitted to do that to an animal
Respect for nature
Do not interfere with the integrity of each species
Five Freedoms
Freedom from hunger and thirst Freedom from discomfort Freedom from pain, injury, disease Freedom to express normal behavior Freedom from fear and distress
The Three Rs
Replacement
Reduction
Refinement
Replacement
Animal use with non-animal alternatives wherever possible in scientific procedures
Reduction
Animal numbers to the minimum possible
Refinement
Animal use to avoid or minimize animal pain, distress, or other adverse effects suffered at any time during the animals lives, and to enhance well-being