The consent document was read in Kakchiquel Mayan by a female research assistant (a native Kakchiquel speaker) and signed by each volunteer with a cross, finger print or name initials, according to her preference.
The doctor will inform the patient about treatment options (drugs, administration, dosages and costs) and a treatment will be initiated according to her preference.
Briefly, the economic explanation of decisions states simply that the agent chooses the feasible option that she ranks most highly according to her "preferences".
Arguably, defenders of resolute choice actually have in mind a different interpretation of sequential decision models, whereby future "choice points" are not really points at which an agent is free to choose according to her preferences at the time.
She mastered the art of faking so well that by the time her mother-in-law died, and she could finally start eating according to her real preferences, she found that she no longer had preferences.
Such a situation, that we call the most preferred bundle, is defined as the choice that the individual would make, according to her ex post preferences and her initial resources, if she had the best medical disposition, that is, the good one.
If she still could not be reached, researchers sent up to 3 follow-up letters by mail or email (according to her stated contact preferences) and continued to call at the same frequency for a maximum of 10 sequential days.
Jon Elster describes how a person acquires deformed desires, which is that she adapts her preferences according to her opportunities and without her control or awareness.
In private life, and carrying out private decisions within the institutions regulated by the coercive rules, the individual citizen has complete liberty to act according to her own values and preferences so long as she obeys the legal rules that apply to her.
By contrast, the second value is the FHEC related to the individual's actual choice, which she selected with her ex ante preferences according to her true medical disposition.
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