Question: Module 6 Bioethics-issues In Medicine Reflective Writing Assignment: Your Response To This Blackboard Discussion Represents A Reflective Writing Assignment. Case 167-Year-Old Cancer Patient Richard Is A 67 Year Old Man With Terminal Cancer. He Has Just Had A Liver Scan And Been Told To Visit His Doctor An Oncologist (l.e. A Cancer Specialist Whose Work …

Module 6 Bioethics-issues in Medicine Reflective Writing Assignment: Your response to this Blackboard Discussion represents a reflective writing assignment. Case 167-Year-Old Cancer Patient Richard is a 67 year old man with terminal cancer. He has just had a liver scan and been told to visit his doctor an oncologist (l.e. a cancer specialist whose work focuses on tumors), and get the results. When Richard arrives, the doctor says that there has been no change in his condition, which is nevertheless, not good. Richard asks the doctor what can be done, and he replies, that there is no remedy for this kind of cancer. Becoming somewhat agitated, Richard asks the doctor what he would advise him to do, bu the doctor merely repeats his opinion that there is nothing to be done. By this time Richard is both frustrated and upset, and he ask the doctor why he won’t care for him and doesn’t care about him. In response the doctor gives Richard a prescription, but he makes it clear that the drug is being prescribed only as a psychological crutch–that it will not improve Richard’s health. When Richard finally leaves the doctor’s office, he feels totally depressed, abandoned, and dehumanized. • Do you feel the doctor handled Richard’s case well? If so why? If not, why not? • How would you have handled the situation or advised the doctor to handle it? • Discuss both truth-telling aspect of what the doctor said and his methods of giving out information relating to his patient.