{"id":4998,"date":"2020-02-26T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2020-02-26T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:36:21","slug":"self-consent-and-self-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/02\/26\/self-consent-and-self-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Consent and Self-Medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her essay \u201cThree arguments against prescription requirements,\u201d Flanigan aims to argue that self-medication should be legal, just as legal as the DIC is. While there may be instances that self-medication could pose threats to human life, I agree with Flanigan\u2019s overall stance. Aside from the hardcore facts such as \u201cthe introduction of a prescription-only category of drugs correlated with more fatal poisonings\u201d (Flanigan, 582), I also thought the idea of self consent when it comes to prescription drugs was compelling and valid. In the regards of medical practitioners being completely transparent and recommending certain medical treatments, patients have the right to accept or refuse the course of treatment suggested to them by their doctors. However, if there is a certain treatment that they know of, such as the diabetes example where the patient wanted to be treated with insulin, they are not\u00a0 allowed to receive this treatment. If their doctor were to give them another form of treatment that they do not accept and they know of another cure, then in my opinion their self consent would be violated. Currently, a patient is completely allowed to choose their course of treatment <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">if<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and only if the doctor has suggested it, even if there is an alternative they know of and would prefer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her essay \u201cThree arguments against prescription requirements,\u201d Flanigan aims to argue that self-medication should be legal, just as legal as the DIC is. While there may be instances that self-medication could pose threats to human life, I agree with Flanigan\u2019s overall stance. Aside from the hardcore facts such as \u201cthe introduction of a prescription-only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}