Which of the Following Situations Can Be Described as Paternalism

question 5

Multiple Choice

Which of the following situations can be described as paternalism?

• A) The physician decides to withhold news of her son's death because he believes the patient will be less able to recover from her injuries if she is grieving.
• B) The physician calls the health care team, patient, and patient's family together to collaborate on alternative strategies to solve an ethical dilemma.
• C) A nursing assistant in the newborn nursery hides in an empty room to bottle-feed a breastfed baby because she says, "the mother doesn't have enough milk and he is starving!"
• D) All of the above
• E) a and c

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