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A physician is justified in performing an operation even ... — Carmelics

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A physician is justified in performing an operation even without knowing the operation will save the patient

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1.If there is any remedy for the patient's disease, it is the operation
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2.A treatment that is the only possible remedy provides justification for its use even under uncertainty of outcome
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1.The principle of informed consent requires that patient autonomy, not merely clinical necessity, grounds the justification for medical intervention.
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2.A physician's epistemic uncertainty about outcome must be disclosed to the patient, making the patient's consent—not the operation's uniqueness—the true justificatory basis.
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1.Beauchamp and Childress's principle of non-maleficence holds that certain harm requires stronger justification than uncertain benefit, not weaker.
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2.An operation with unknown probability of success imposes certain surgical trauma and risk, meaning the uncertainty of benefit cannot itself justify the intervention.
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Reichenbach argued that it was not necessary for the justification of inductive inference to show that its conclusion is true. Rather “the proof of the truth of the conclusion is only a sufficient condition for the justification of induction, not a necessary condition” (Reichenbach 2006: 348). If it could be shown, he says, that inductive inference is a necessary condition of success, then even if we do not know that it will succeed, we still have some reason to follow it. Reichenbach makes a co

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