Timothy E. Quill's Case Of Individualized Decision Making Case Study

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Timothy E. Quill in “Case of Individualized Decision Making”, described his patient Diane who was a vaginal cancer survivor, overcome alcoholism and depression. Dr. Quill diagnose her with Leukemia. He explained to Diane that the chemotherapy has only a 25% chance of survival and there were some complications involves in this process. Diane refused to take the treatment and decided to live the remaining of her life in a most enjoyable way possible, by avoiding all the pain of the treatment. Furthermore, when Diane heath condition deteriorate, Dr. Quill gave her some prescription that was primarily used to sleep assistance. He gave her information of the dose necessary to commit suicide. Diane decided to commit suicide and Dr. Quill diagnosis of death was Leukemia. Therefore, Diane did not do what she should be consider moral actions under the Kantian perspective because her maxim cannot become a universal law. Likewise, Dr. Quill did and did not did his best decision by …show more content…

Quill took two morals decision, to help Diane to commit suicide and lie about the diagnosis of Dianna cause of death. Under the Ethics of cares Dr. Quill did not do what he support to do in Diana situation. Care is a practice of doing an activity consistently over time. A practice need to incorporate standards to evaluate it. Under the ethics of care, helping patients to commit suicide was not constantly being part of his job. Moreover, if we take into consideration doctor standards to evaluate this situation it will not be permitted under doctor’s ethics rules to help patient to take away life. In other words, Dr. Quill actions to lie about the diagnosis of the cause of death is a crime. At that time, helping to suicide was illegal and it was paid with jail. In the ethics of cares, justice is a value and who ever do something wrong under this ethics need to pay for that. In other words, he did not took the best decision to lie about the diagnoses of death and may have to pay with

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