Question 2 of 10
3 Points
Which of the following scenarios presents the most complex bioethics issue?

A. Choosing to conduct your check-up over the phone

B. Deciding whether to use an artificial heart, or a pacemaker

C. Choosing the next step in a diabetic patient's treatment

D. Deciding between two needy patients for an organ donation

The scenario which best presents most complex bioethics issues is deciding between two needy patients for an organ donation.

Option D

Explanation:

The most complex situation occurs where the two needy patients requires an organ donation and specifically when the same organ is needed by both the needy patients. In due matter of such bioethics, usually the depth of need is evaluated for both the patients according to their survival instincts and responses.

If a patient could hold for a comparable longer duration than the other which needs the organ to be donated at once is treated first as per the bioethics protocol module. Also the factors of severity of sickness, prolongness of sickness, age factor, immunity factor, associative factors as well, are taken into consideration.

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