Physician-Patient Decision-Making di Douglas N. Walton edito da Greenwood Press
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Physician-Patient Decision-Making

A Study in Medical Ethics

EAN:

9780313248887

ISBN:

0313248885

Pagine:
284
Formato:
Hardback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione Physician-Patient Decision-Making

Walton offers a comprehensive, flexible model for physician-patient decision making, the first such tool designed to be applied at the level of each particular case. Based on Aristotelian practical reasoning, it develops a method of reasonable dialogue, a question- and-answer process of interaction leading to informed consent on the part of the patient, and to a decision--mutually arrived at--reflecting both high medical standards and the patient's felt needs. After setting forth his model, he applies it to three vital ethical issues: acts of omission, the cessation of treatment, and possible side effects of treatments. In the final chapter, Walton shows how his method functions in light of the real-life complexities of the clinical encounter and how it bears on ethical questions concerning health-care policy, attitudes toward treatment and toward the medical profession, reasonableness of expectations, and the setting of realistic goals of treatment.

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