Don’t get me wrong. Making the right diagnosis or choosing the right therapy are critical functions of medical practice. But there’s more to the practice of medicine, and making a diagnosis and choosing a therapy will touch on those things (eg, patients’ experience of illness).
Thanks Josh - agreed. I don’t discuss the use of fictional examples in medical ethics much, but it’s absolutely an area where there are benefits in preserving patient anonymity and avoiding legal issues in making judgments about actual cases.
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I remember finding this good:
https://philpapers.org/rec/SPRTNR