A surgeon refused a patient's request to restart a patient's total parenteral nutrition (giving nutrition through the intravenous route)
because he believed that a greater good would be achieved by not using medical resources to prolong the life of a terminally ill patient when the resources could be used for other patients. Which ethical theory best explains the surgeon's rationale?
a. Ethics of care
b. Utilitarianism
c. Deontology
d. Categorical imperative
ANS: B
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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