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| Respect for Patient Autonomy |
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| A patient has the right to make their own medical decisions. |
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| A clinician's first duty to benefit their patient. |
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| By society's standards, the inclusion of vulnerable populations in research, consideration of resource allocation, and treating people equitably. |
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| Any entity that is part of the moral community, is capable of being related to, and capable of suffering. |
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| This doctrine says that if doing something morally good also has a morally bad side-effect, it's ethically permissible to do it providing the bad side-effect wasn't intended. This is true even if you foresaw that the bad effect would probably happen. |
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