首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying
The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying
admin
2014-09-27
55
问题
The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.
Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect", a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects—a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen—is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.
Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patients.
Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death. "
George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. "It’s like surgery," he says. "We don’t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn’t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you’re a physician, you can risk your patients’ suicide as long as you don’t intend their suicide. "
On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.
Just three weeks before the Court’s ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death; Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the under-treatment of pain and the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end-of-life care. The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life.
Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. "Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering," to the extent that it constitutes "systematic patient abuse." He says medical licensing boards "must make it clear... that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension. "
Which of the following best defines the word "aggressive" (line 3, paragraph 7)?
选项
A、Bold
B、Harmful
C、Careless
D、Desperate
答案
A
解析
语意题。aggressive意为:1)咄咄逼人的,好斗的;2)攻略性的,侵略的;3)有闯劲的,大胆的。根据上下文,aggressive应为“大胆的”。所以,A为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/SnRd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
HowmuchofFinland’ssurfaceiscoveredwiththickforests?
StandardEnglishisthevarietyofEnglishwhichisusuallyusedinprintandwhichisnormallytaughtinschoolsandtonon-nat
Childrenstartoutasnaturalscientists,instinctivelyeagertoinvestigatetheworldaroundthem.Helpingthemenjoyscienc
retirement本题考查丢钱事件后对不诚实警察的处理,有些被解雇了,有些被迫提前______,可以推测是退休。
Properarrangementofclassroomspaceisimportanttoencouraginginteraction.Mostofushavenoticedhowimportantphysica
Therearevariouswaysinwhichindividualeconomicunitscaninteractwithoneanother.Threebasicwaysmaybedescribedasth
Rabiesisanordinarilyinfectiousdiseaseofthecentralnervoussystem,causedbyavirusand,asarule,spreadchieflybydo
Whatwasthepurposeoftheprofessor’sexperiments?
WhatdoesProfessorMorgando?
acceptdeath在某些情况下,人们支持克隆人是因为他们害怕死亡,所以答案应该是unwillingtoacceptdeath。
随机试题
女,21岁,心悸、怕热、多汗3个月,考虑Graves病。白细胞4.0×109/L,中性粒细胞2.5×109/L;给予甲巯咪唑和美托洛尔治疗,2周后复查白细胞1.0×109/L,中性粒细胞0.4×109/L。中性粒细胞缺乏最可能的原因是
治疗原发性血小板减少性紫癜的有效方法是
以下哪一项不属于原发性心肌病
A.36cmB.40cmC.46cmD.50cmE.56cm出生时新生儿身长平均是
下列施工企业中,属于营业收人的是()。
金罗公司是一家花卉种植与销售企业,在Y省已经成立13年。有关金罗公司的基本情况如下:金罗公司所在省份的企业注册资金要求较高,没有一定的资金基础,很难在该省份成立公司,并且金罗公司很好地控制了该省份的销售渠道。金罗公司培养的花卉所需原料A由于具有独特性,只能
某电子企业积极参与所属社区的公益事业,为该社区的社会服务机构捐款,该企业负责人认为,通过支持社区的工作,可以间接造福在当地分公司的员工,使工作环境变得更好,促使员工满意度增加,该企业的捐款动机属于( )。
考研如同独自穿越人生的一条隧道,没有喝彩和掌声,没有鲜花和美景,有的只是枯燥的书本、繁重的学习任务以及为现实理想而殚精竭虑的思考,最难忍受的便是情感和生活状态上的孤独寂寞。因为既然选择了与众不同的理想,就必须要有特立独行、与众不同的行动,必须耐住孤独和寂寞
(69)是错误的网络设备选型原则。
中国的春节在农历(lunarcalendar)一月一日,是新一年的开始。这是举家团圆的时刻。一般说来,在春节前几天,只要有可能的话,多数人无论身处何地都会回家。就像圣诞节一样,人们会买很多东西如食品、礼物、衣服和烟花爆竹给孩子们。在除夕之夜,多数农村家庭
最新回复
(
0
)