The highest ethical imperative of doctors should be to provide care in whatever way best serves patients' interests, in accord with each patient's wishes, not with a theoretical commitment to preserve life no matter what the cost in suffering.... The greatest harm we can do is to consign a desperate patient to unbearable suffering--or force the patient to seek out a stranger like Dr. Kevorkian. According to the traditional 'doctrine of double effect' it is permissible to act in ways that may result in bad consequences if, it occurs as a side effect of the act which is directly aimed at or intended" the act directly aimed at is morally good or morally neutral" the good effect is not achieved by way of the bad, meaning that the bad must not be a means to the good" and the bad consequences cannot be so serious as to outweigh the good effect. 4 pgs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Filename: 11252 Ethics Double Effect.doc
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