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A 20 page book review that summarizes and analyzes For the Patient's Good, The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care by Edmund D. Pellegrino and David Thomasma. The writer first introduces the text, then offers a detailed summation of the arguments presented in the three section of the book. This is followed by the writer's evaluation and conclusions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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quite clearly in their preface, where they write that they "will contend that beneficence remains the central moral principle in the ethics of medicine" and that this entails "all of
the components packed into the complex notion of the patients good."1 In defining their vision of beneficence, the authors offer a broad scope that goes beyond the "strict medical values
to embrace the moral and other values of the patient."2 The world of modern medicine can work wonders, miracles. Medical technology can save lives, prolong lives, cure disease, and restore
health. However, the miracles of medicine often only serve to prolong the suffering of the terminally ill and make death a long and drawn out process. As this indicates,
medical miracles also frequently encompass knotty ethical issues in which it is difficult to unravel positive and negative factors. Medicine is dedicated to the principle of beneficence, that is,
"to do good," and this perspective has been frequently cited in support of medicine decisions.3 However, deciding what is "good," within the realm of medical possibility is often difficult. Is
it "good" for example to sacrifice one twin to save the life of the other in cases of conjoined twins? Medical science can keep the bodies of patients alive
long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting medical decisions in regards to their children and situations
in which families face the awful choice of whether or not to use extensive life-sustaining procedures in cases where a positive outcome is almost certainly doubtful. Then, again the news
occasionally report on a comatose patients who "awoke" after years in coma. How can the public, the courts, or healthcare practitioners approach the daily requirements of making clinical decisions within
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