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seeks to a harmful one hasten death as long as A. how medicine【T13】______ relieve dying patients of pain and suffering B. you
seeks to a harmful one hasten death as long as A. how medicine【T13】______ relieve dying patients of pain and suffering B. you
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2017-03-23
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问题
seeks to
a harmful one
hasten death
as long as
A. how medicine【T13】______ relieve dying patients of pain and suffering
B. you can risk your patient’s suicide【T14】______ you don’t intend their suicide.
C. if that might【T15】______
D. a good one that is intended and【T16】______ that is foreseen
The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for【T17】______ .
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—【T18】______ —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 patient.
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【T19】______ . "
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,【T20】______ . "
【T19】
选项
A、
B、
C、
D、
答案
C
解析
根据语境可知,空格所在句的意思应为:最近几年来,医生们一直在用这一准则来为自己使用大剂量的吗啡来减轻濒危病人的病痛而辩护,尽管加大剂量会导致病人死亡。所以,C项符合题意。
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