If utility is treated as choice-worthiness, then decision theory is compatible with any theory of desire at all (except perhaps for theories that hold desires are beliefs in goodness, as discussed in section 1.3).
Therefore, the choice of first-line malaria chemotherapy is crucial to cure those treated, as well as allow the maximum number of persons to be treated.
Obviously, choice doesn't apply in some areas - if you are in an accident, you just want to be treated as quickly as possible.
And here Ireland is behind the rest of Europe: doctors remain unaccountable, patients are not treated as consumers, choice is limited, and many hospitals are too small to be effective.
In much of Eastern Europe it is treated as a personal choice, Dr. Emiroglu said.
The findings indicate that embedded answer hints in questions were treated as an answer choice by participants, which enhanced efficiency.
This, unfortunately, is all-too-familiar territory for America's families in today's anything-goes culture, where sexual promiscuity is too often treated as just another lifestyle choice with little risk of adverse consequences.
Strongyloidiasis could not be treated as the drug of choice, ivermectin, was not registered in Italy, and was requested from the local pharmacy but not retrieved in time before discharge.
Lack of transparency: Problems with workforce sustainability are perpetuated by a lack of information and awareness about the situation, particularly amongst incoming graduate students who seek the increasingly rare academic careers that are still treated as the default career choice by many graduate programs.
Like other models based on a discrete choice approach, labor supply is treated as the outcome of agents' choices from a finite set of job opportunities.
Perhaps race should be morally neutral, but it is not commonly treated as such, and opening up "choice" for people who harbor explicit or implicit biases related to race allows for those biases to shape the next generation.
