There are four to seven pillars or principles of health care ethics. St. Joseph’s University has developed the following four:[1]:
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Autonomy-means that the patient retains the
right and control over their body.
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Does this mean a person has the right to refuse
a COVID 19 vaccine?
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There is a movement underway to make this
vaccine mandatory backed by Bill Gates who retains a large investment in
vaccines and has stated “we won’t go back to normal until a vaccine has gotten
out to the entire world.”[2]
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Will they hold us down and inject?
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I do not think so, but I can foresee powerful
economic, social pressure and maybe confinement being involved.
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Beneficence-means that you must do all
you can to benefit your patient based on the situation and to do the best for
your patient; treating each patient as an individual knowing what is good for
one patient may not be good for another. This also includes developing your
skill and facilities.
·
Non-Maleficence-means basically “to do no
harm”. This also includes doing what is right for the patient and the society
at large.
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Justice-means being fair in your medical
practice and decisions; for example, with the COVID vaccine does a healthy
congress person get a vaccine or your grandma.
Some sources such as the National Center for Biotechnology
Information list three more pillars: Health Maximisation; Efficiency and Proportionality.
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Health Maximisation-which weights the
economic value of preventative and palliative interventions to maximize the
greatest benefit at the lowest cost.
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Efficiency-means we have a moral duty to
use scarce medical resources efficiently. Don’t sell your ventilators that you
stock for emergencies. To take actions that naturally lead to an increased
public health.
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Proportionality-basically means that the
probable public health benefits outweigh the cost or infringement on the
patients. For example, was the cost of the COVID shutdown worth the health
benefits society received? This entails that hospitals must decide how much
risk to take in providing healthcare while preserving healthcare workers.
These pillars are important because they give direction in the practice
of medicine and help ensure that the God given rights of life, liberty and
property as expressed in the declaration of Independence are protected by the
establishments of men. These God given rights are established by God in a hierarchy
with life first, liberty as second, and property third. This order must be followed
when there is a conflict in deciding which pillar has precedence.
After reviewing these pillars, I propose the following order:
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Life is protected by the following pillars and no
other pillars should have precedence:
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Beneficence
o
Non-Maleficence
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Liberty
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Justice
o
Autonomy
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Property
o
Health Maximisation
o
Efficiency
o
Proportionality
To ignore these self-evident rights to life, liberty and
property will lead us down the road to transhumanism.
To be
clear, Transhumanism is a manufactured endpoint to human
evolution by the year 2030[3].
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Where reproductive and genetic control
technologies serve as forms of social control.
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Where technology promotes a Scientific
Dictatorship called Scientism.
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Where
scientists are gods under the religion of Technocracy.
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Where
politicians are priests and science
is politicized.
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Where
the more you separate yourself from your heart-self, the more you create
something non-human.
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