Shoutout to lil to motivate me to post this one, It's been a busy few weeks for me. Remember to include why you like your quote!
'In order to maintain coherent debate on the topic of patient autonomy, and to keep this book out of the realms of metaphysics, we must ask the reader to operate under the assumption that human beings do in fact have free will.'
-Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Biomedical Ethics, Fifteenth Edition
I like this quote because in the context of my Bioethics class, it helps us structure debate and immediately sussed out the single Determinist Christian (God already has a plan, nothing we do can change it) in the class. In the context of patient autonomy it provides a fundamental assumption that allows for the creation of an operational framework to discuss how much control a patient should have over their own care. Personally, I believe that every patient should be an informed, and well informed patient, and for any kind of chronic disease that patient should know their illness well and stay abreast of their own care and research in the area of their illness. However we've got a pretty heated debate running in my class which is arguing for a return to a more paternalistic approach to medicine, where you just do exactly what the doctor says and don't expect to understand the issue. Also within my own paradigm I struggle to understand people who don't want to understand their disease, but they do exist apparently.
Shout out time!
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