Emanuel And Emanuel's Deliberative Model Of Abortion

Emanuel and Emanuel constructed four models of the ideal physician-patient relationship, one of which included the deliberative model. For this model, the physician acts as a friend or teacher to the patient, describing and persuading the patient of the what the most admirable values are through information of treatment (Emanuel, 2222). The patient, who must have an open-mind to develop and revise their own moral values through discussion, will choose their treatment after the discussion of values with their physician. Emanuel and Emanuel’s deliberative model allows for the physician to act as an ideal teacher that persuades the patient of worthy values, the integration of information and relevant values to make a recommendation to the patient, and the
The patient may come to a physician with undeveloped or minimally formed values, and the deliberative model allows for the physician to work with the patient to discover and develop the new or existing values that the patient arrived at the practice with (Agarwal, 3). After determining what values are held as a highest priority to the patient and laying out all the treatment options, the physician will encourage the patient to choose certain treatments based off the physician’s interpretation of the patient’s established values. Emanuel and Emanuel believe that this education and establishment of the patient’s core values does not fall into the category of paternalism, and the deliberative model is built as a way “to persuade the patient of the worthiness of certain values, not to impose those values paternalistically” (Emanuel, 2225). However, is a doctor’s purpose in the medical field to diagnose a person’s central moral values or to decide which treatment would be best for the patient in terms of quality of