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Dr. T Case

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First Case Study (2): A Patient’s Request for a Possibly Useless Treatment A patient with the flu named Jeff asks Dr. T if he can get an antibiotic. Dr. T knows that an antibiotic will be useless against the flu. Dr. T usually tells her patients to rest and drink fluids to fight the flu. But after explaining the situation to the patient, Jeff still wants an antibiotic. Should Dr. T honor Jeff’s request for antibiotics? Dr. T should not offer an antibiotic to the patient. It would be a waste of resources and money to give a patient a treatment that will be physiologically useless to them when the patient is uneducated. Is it appropriate for physicians to offer treatments whose sole purpose is to provide psychological comfort when that comfort

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