Paper 1

We should conceptualize the relationship between a doctor and patient strictly as a partnership, that is, where health care professionals and their patients are partners in the pursued shared value of health. This model of a relationship is the best suited because it makes the values of the doctor just as important as the values of the patient and they come to an agreement of the best possible path to take. The most important component of this model is its attention to the patient. The physician helps the patient realize their own ends. As a participant of this model, the patient and physician have to have approximately equal power, the both have the mutual need for each other, and they both have to engage in activity that will in some ways be beneficial and satisfying for both.
One of the other models is the paternal model in which moral authority and discretion is assigned to the physician because of their competence, skill, and ability to keep the patient in good health. This model is seemingly corrupt because the autonomy of the patient is overlooked when the physician is in control. In a case where they physician and patient disagree about the meaning or a value that they each have, the patients values and understanding will not be taken into consideration. Paternalism is understood as a normative model, which tries to determine what is morally right and wrong with regard to human action. Though in some cases paternalistic action is needed sometimes especially in cases where the patient is not in a position to make their own decisions, i.e. their competence is ineffective, all paternalistic actions are not justifiable.
Another model is the rational contractor model in which the relationship between physician and patient is based on the obligations of the doctor to perform in the best interest of the patient but where they have differing goals. Both