Practice Question
Mrs. Smith is 29 years old with no medical problems, Mrs. Jones is 84 with chronic COPD, Diabetes, and chronic CHF, there is only one ventilator left in the hospital. To be fair, the Ethics Committee decides Mrs. Smith should get the ventilator.
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Correct Answer:
Justice
Rationale:
🟥Justice ensures fair allocation of scarce resources.
🟥Decisions in justice use objective criteria, not personal preferences.
🟥 It promotes equal and equitable distribution of life-saving interventions.
🟥 The committee evaluated clinical factors to allocate the single ventilator fairly.
🟥Justice supports transparent, unbiased resource management.
Autonomy
🟥 Autonomy is about individual choice, not resource allocation.
🟥 It cannot determine who receives scarce equipment.
Beneficence
🟥 Beneficence means acting for the patient’s good, not balancing fairness.
🟥 It could lead to biased decisions if used alone.
Fidelity
🟥 Fidelity ensures promise-keeping, not resource distribution.
🟥 It is not used in ventilator triage decisions.
Paternalism
🟥 Paternalism overrides autonomy; it does not govern fairness.
🟥 It is irrelevant to multi-patient resource decisions.
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