Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians / Bernard Lo
ISBN
078-175-357-0
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Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005
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3rd ed
ลักษณะทางกายภาพ
x, 309 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
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Includes index
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Contents: An approach to ethical dilemmas in patient care --Overview of ethical guidelines -- Informed consent -- Promoting the patient^'s best interests -- Confidentiality -- Avoiding deception and nondisclosure -- Keeping promises -- An approach to decisions about clinical interventions -- Futile interventions -- Decision-making capacity -- Refusal of treatment by competent, informed patients -- Standards for decisions when patients lack decision-making capacity -- Surrogate decision making -- Persistent disagreements over care -- Confusing ethical distinctions -- Ethics committees and case consultations -- Do not attempt resuscitation orders -- Tube and intravenous feedings -- Physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia -- The persistent vegetative state -- Determination of death -- Legal rulings on life-sustaininginterventions -- Overview of the doctor-patient relationship -- Refusal to care for patients -- Gifts frompatients to physicians -- Sexual contact between physicians and patients -- Secret information about patients -- Clinical research -- Overview of conflicts of interest -- Bedside rationing of health care -- Incentivesfor physicians to increase services -- Incentives for physicians to decrease services -- Gifts from drug companies -- Disclosing errors -- Impaired colleagues -- Ethical dilemmas students and house staff face -- Ethical issues in pediatrics -- Ethical issues in surgery -- Ethical issues in obstetrics and gynecology -- Ethical issues in psychiatry -- Ethical issues in organ transplantation -- Testing for genetic conditions -- Ethical issues in public health emergencies