Are Quality of Life' Judgments Ethical? | Prof. Gina Noia
The Thomistic Institute
00:00
The Importance of Quality of Life Language
"We would be wrong to think that we can definitively make an external judgment about a person's quality of life," he says. "Only the patient knows the details of his or her life, but the professional too has expertise about the patient's medical condition and side effects." It is fine for health care professionals to relay their external judgments to the patient,. However, it seems to me that it is best to avoid quality of life language here".
Transcript
Play full episode
