Regarding the Right of Patients to Forgo CPR Via a Do-Not-Resuscitate

question 16

Multiple Choice

Regarding the right of patients to forgo CPR via a do-not-resuscitate order, the AMA wrote: "The physician has an ethical obligation to honor the resuscitation preferences expressed by the patient. Physicians should not permit their personal value judgments about quality of life to obstruct the implementation of a patient's preferences regarding the use of CPR."
This line of reasoning most clearly illustrates the principle of

• A) beneficence.
• B) nonmaleficence.
• C) patient autonomy.
• D) paternalism.

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