Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Seventh EditionA unique structured approach to solving ethical issues that arise in daily clinical practice A Doody's Core Title for 2011! Clinical Ethics teaches the widely-known Four-Topics Method to help you make the right choice when facing complex ethical questions and dilemmas encountered during everyday patient care. You will learn an easy-to-apply system based on simple questions about medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features that clearly explain clinical ethics and helps you formulate a sound diagnosis and treatment strategy.
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... physician and a patient, a relationship that is permeated with ethical responsibilities. Physicians must aim, in the words of Hippocrates, “to help and do no harm.” Modern physicians approach the doctor–patient relationship with a ...
... physician responds to the patient by utilizing the correct means to diagnose and treat this condition. In this ... physician's duty to cure is countered by a patient's refusal of indicated treatment, or the patient cannot afford ...
... physician suspects a urinary tract infection, obtains a confirmatory culture, and prescribes an antibiotic. The physician explains to the patient the nature of the condition and the reason for prescribing the medication. The patient ...
... physician to set out to harm a patient, but it is almost inevitable that when a physician attempts to benefit a patient, by medication or surgery, for example, some harm or risk of harm is possible or may ensue. Every surgical procedure ...
... physicians as professionals. As the Charter on Medical Professionalism states, professionalism “demands placing the interest of patients above those of the physician, setting and maintaining standards of competence and integrity, and ...
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Patient Preferences | 47 |
Quality of Life | 109 |
Contextual Features | 161 |
Locator | 225 |
Pullout CardThe Four Topics Chart | 229 |
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Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical ... Albert Jonsen,Mark Siegler,William Winslade No preview available - 2010 |