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
考研
On 26 March, the Italian Senate approved a bill that would give physicians in the country the right to override the living wills
On 26 March, the Italian Senate approved a bill that would give physicians in the country the right to override the living wills
admin
2019-09-30
73
问题
On 26 March, the Italian Senate approved a bill that would give physicians in the country the right to
override
the living wills of people who are in a persistent vegetative state, and to try to keep the patients alive through artificial nutrition. The measure has caused intense controversy. Many countries have laws, or established codes of medical practice, that protect the expressed wishes of an individual to decline treatment if they become severely incapacitated and incapable of communicating. In most US states, for example, a doctor must negotiate with relatives via an ethics committee if he or she believes that a patient incapacitated in this way could benefit from additional treatment. The Italian bill, however, explicitly allows physicians to overrule such living wills. It also declares that artificial nutrition is not a clinical intervention.
Curiously, the proposed law applies only to patients in the type of prolonged, deep coma known as a persistent vegetative state, and not to those with other, similarly incapacitating illnesses. This is because the bill has been prompted by the recent and much-publicized death of Eluana Englaro, who spent 17 years in a vegetative state after a car accident at the age of 21. Her father, arguing that his daughter had voiced a desire to be allowed to die if incapacitated, had pressed her reluctant doctors to cease artificial feeding. He eventually took legal action, winning in one court after the next in fighting off all the doctors’ appeals. In February, he finally had her moved to a hospital that was prepared to remove the feeding tube. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi issued an emergency decree to block the process, but the Italian president refused to sign it. The constitutional crisis was averted when Englaro died on 9 February.
Surveys have indicated that a large majority of Italians do not support the idea that living wills could be ignored But most relevant scientific societies have been quiet The Federation of Italian Physicians published only a mild statement, after the Senate vote, suggesting that it should have been consulted.
As tragic as Englaro’s situation was, media-fuelled emotion is not a good basis for lawmaking. The Italian constitution says that no one can be forced to undergo medical treatment without his or her approval. The Italian parliament must now ensure that the bill is imbued with a suitable level of scientific and legal sophistication, and that it meets this constitutional provision. Discussion needs to embrace the requested wider consultation with the medical community and provisions should be made for care-givers’ conscientious objection. But a physician whose conscience precludes his or her personally removing a feeding tube should not have the last say in the life or death of a patient whose wishes are clearly stated.
A physician does not have the right to decide the life or death of a patient if_____.
选项
A、there is no suitable level of scientific and legal sophistication
B、the patient expresses his own living will in a clear way
C、the physician does not have clear conscience
D、there is no wider consultation with the medical community
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。根据题干the life or death of a patient定位到第五段。该段第五句提到,在病人明确表示自己的意愿时,医生不应该替病人做最后的决定,故B项与之相符。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Yqe4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Bysayingthatacountry’sagriculturalsurplusesoften"complicate"itseconomy,theauthormeans______.Whydogovernmentss
Allthepeople______treatmentprotestedthatthemedicalfeewastoohightobeacceptable.
Genetherapyandgene-baseddrugsaretwowayswecouldbenefitfromourgrowingmasteryofgeneticscience.Buttherewillbeo
Nameshavegainedincreasingimportanceinthecompetitiveworldofhighereducation.Ascollegesstriveformarketshare,they
TheUnitedStateshashistoricallyhadhigherratesofmarriagethanthoseofotherindustrializedcountries.Thecurrentannual
OlympicGamesareheldeveryfouryearsatadifferentsite,inwhichathletes【1】differentnationscompeteagainsteachotherin
OlympicGamesareheldeveryfouryearsatadifferentsite,inwhichathletes【1】differentnationscompeteagainsteachotherin
Thistimelastyearthreeoutoffour16to24-year-oldswerewearingthewhitebandofMakePovertyHistory.Whateverthecampa
WhenrecruitingatBritishuniversities,PricewaterhouseCoopers,oneoftheBigFourauditingfirmswithitsheadquartersinthe
SANFRANCISCO—Theattackhadthehallmarksofsomethingresearchershaddreadedforyears:malicioussoftwareusingartificiali
随机试题
目前电子商务中电子货币系统的主要类型包括()
下列哪项可辅助诊断子宫性闭经
深龋时患牙对牙髓温度测试的反应是
A.白及B.仙鹤草C.棕榈炭D.血余炭E.炮姜
采用了同步CDMA、智能天线、软件无线电、接力切换等一系列高新技术的全新移动通信技术是()。
下列关于钢筋安装的说法正确的有()。
下列说法错误的一项是()。
风险评估程序是在总体审计策略中需要考虑的内容。( )为使审计程序与被审计单位有关人员的工作相协调,按审计准则规定,注册会计师应与被审计单位的有关人员共同编制审计计划。( )
根据下列材料回答下列问题。2009年11月,首届世界低碳与生态经济大会技术博览会在江西南昌召开,在这次大会上,江西共签约项目143个,总投资为1045.95亿元,先后分三次签约;第一次,与23家央企签约37年合作项目,项目总投资为519.1亿元;第
不幸
最新回复
(
0
)