A patient is getting ready to leave the hospital and requests pain medication before going home. She goes so far as to a

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A patient is getting ready to leave the hospital and requestspain medication before going home. She goes so far as to ask forDilaudid by name, a very powerful drug, with strong risk ofaddiction and dependence. It seems to you, her physician, that herpain is easily controlled with less powerful drugs. She doesn’tseem in pain to you as she packs her bags, and you know she’s nottaken any pain medications recently. Your fellow doctors becomeangry at this request and force the patient to leave the hospitalwithout medications, going so far as to call security to have herescorted out. Consider the moral positions of both the patient andthe physician who called security. What moral principles andethical theories are involved here? How does paternalism balanceagainst autonomy? What is the ethical course of action?