Medical Ethics Accounts of Ground Breaking Cases 8th Edition By Gregory – Test Bank

Chapter 11

The God Committee

1. In selecting candidates for dialysis, the God Committee itself selected candidates for machines by using the selection standard of:
2. a lottery.
3. B. social worth.
4. strictly non-psychological, medical criteria.
5. only psychological criteria.
6. the ability to pay.

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2. Which of the following is a TRUE statement?
3. Marissa Ayala was conceived to be a bone marrow donor, had her bone marrow harvested, and died as a result.
4. B. Belding Scribner invented a permanent, indwelling shunt for hemodialysis patients.
5. Shana Alexander did not think that Belding Scribner manipulated America and Congress to pay for dialysis machines.
6. The End Stage Renal Disease Act saved Americans money over the next decades because dialysis machines became cheaper as more were produced.
7. An African-American named Bruce Tucker got a heart transplant from a white man with head injuries.

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3. Which of the following is TRUE in the Pittsburgh protocol for obtaining organs for transplantation?
4. The patient is declared dead by the Harvard criteria of brain death.
5. B. Drugs are administered that might accelerate the death of the patient from whom the organs are taken.
6. Most families understand that the organ donor’s death will be managed to maximize the health of the organs to be transplanted.
7. Transplant surgeons don’t have to wait a few minutes after the heart stops before declaring a patient dead.
8. It mandates doing everything possible for the health of the patient from whom the organs are taken.

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4. With regard to giving a patient a second heart transplant, it is TRUE that:
5. patients receiving second heart transplants live longer, on average, than first-time recipients.
6. it costs much less to give a patient a second heart transplant than to give the heart to a first-time recipient.
7. providing a second transplant to the same patient is not an example of the Rule of Rescue.
8. D. patients are often given a second or third transplant because the transplant teams feel that to let a transplant recipient die is to abandon him or her.
9. a national policy allowing second and third transplants to the same patient gets the most years of human life per organ transplanted.

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5. A utilitarian would not manage the distribution of organs by:
6. giving no patient a second organ transplant of the same organ when other patients need the organ.
7. B. giving preference to the sickest patients.
8. requiring people who obtain organs to in turn declare themselves organ donors.
9. assuming that each organ saves a life and by not giving one person four organs from one cadaver, but giving four people one organ.
10. banning the Rule of Rescue and using impartial criteria for the allocation of organs.

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6. The Rule of Rescue, named by bioethicist Albert Jonsen, refers to _____.
7. A. giving scarce medical resources to an identified patient
8. giving scarce medical resources to deserving but anonymous people
9. withdrawing medical support from identified patients
10. providing medical attention to affluent sufferers only
11. maintaining calm during emergency rescue operations