Maintain or restore health and prevent or cure illness. Preserve the quality as well as the extent of life. Meet personal, psychological, and spiritual needs of the patient. Prepare for death, and recognize and ease dying. Provide respect, comfort, care, and hope always.
Morals are standards of ethical behavior.
Morality is a cultural, religious, or professional tradition of values about what is good, right, and just. Clinical medical ethics is the systematic approach to identifying, analyzing, and resolving the ethical problems of a particular patient. Utilitarianism is a consequence based theory that defines good as that which promotes happiness and defines right as that which produces the greatest good. Utility is often stated to be the greatest good for the greatest number or less approvingly the end justifies the means. It is a method for making decisions by weighing the benefits and burdens of an intervention under consideration.