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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... treat this condition. In this situation, the treatment for, say, a mild asthma attack is effective and the patient is satisfied. At the same time an ethical action has taken place: the patient is helped and not harmed. In other cases ...
... treatment. Every clinician learns early in training a common pattern for organizing that mass of detail: chief complaint, history of the chief complaint, general medical history of the patient, results of physical examination, and ...
... treatment is no longer likely to be beneficial; this patient needs palliative care. At second sight, however, the ... treat a patient have failed, the continued application of aggressive measures causes more harm than good to this ...
... treatment? 3. In what circumstances are medical treatments not indicated? 4. What are the probabilities of success of various treatment options? 5. In sum, how can this patient be benefited by medical and nursing care, and how can harm ...
... treatment, (2) cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders, and (3) the determination of death. 1.0.1 Definition of Medical Indications Medical Indications are the facts, opinions, and interpretations about ...
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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 |