Assignment 2
Doctors and other medical professionals are supposed to make sure that patients who have a medical history taken or a test given to them or a treatment provided to them consent to have these things done in an informed and voluntary way.
Q1. What do doctors and other medical professionals have to do to make sure that their patients are supplying informed consent? Do they just have to tell patients some information or is more required?
Length guidance 250-500 words.
Satisfactory grade (a) answer understandable by reader without background in course materials, (b) answer makes use of course materials, (c) answer contains no obvious mistakes in reasoning or facts (for example, is incomplete or incorrect).
A satisfactory grade is given as 1/1.
Q2. Should providers of OTC DTC genetics tests have to make sure that users of these tests consent or agree in the same informed way as doctors and other medical professionals do? Some writers seem to think so. This includes Bunnik (included in the course materials in Canvas) and O’Neill (not included in the course materials in Canvas but to be found at https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/29/1/4.full.pdf (Links to an external site.)) and perhaps others. Your instructor is not so sure that the answer is Yes.
Length guidance 250-500 words.
Satisfactory grade (a) answer understandable by reader without background in course materials, (b) answer makes use of course materials, (c) answer contains no obvious mistakes in reasoning or facts (for example, is incomplete or incorrect).
A satisfactory grade is given as 1/1.
Your answer to these questions should be one large document and not two separate documents. You should not include a name or a student number in your answer. Canvas will keep track of whose assignment your answer belongs to.
