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Lesson 11
Topic: MEDICAL ETHICS
Vocabulary
GMC
–
General Medical Council
AIDS
–
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
HIV
–
human immunodeficiency virus
care
–
protecting and looking after someone
professional
competence
–
level of specialized knowledge and skills
confidential
–
private, secret
prejudice
–
have a negative influence on
risk
–
possibility of something bad happening
fit to practice
–
in a suitable condition to work
euthanasia
–
knowingly and intentionally performing an act
that is clearly intended to end another person’s
life and that includes the following elements: the
subject is a competent, informed person with an
incurable illness who has voluntarily asked for
his or her life to be ended; the agent knows
about the person’s condition and desire to die,
and commits the act with the primary intention
of ending the life of that person; and the act is
undertaken with compassion and without per-
sonal gain.
assistance
in
suicide
–
knowingly and intentionally providing a person
with the knowledge or means or both required to
commit suicide, including counselling about le-
thal doses of drugs, prescribing such lethal doses
or supplying the drugs.
surrogate
or
substitute ges-
tation
–
a form of pregnancy in which a woman agrees to
gestate a child and give it up at birth to another
individual or couple who in most cases have
provided either the sperm (via artificial insemi-
nation) or the embryo (via in vitro fertilization
and embryo transfer).
whistle-blower
–
someone who informs people in authority or the
public that an individual or an organization is