Doctors' legal position in treating temporarily incompetent patients
| Autor: | D W, Hodgkinson, A J, Gray, B, Dalal, P, Wilson, Z, Szawarski, T, Sensky, G, Gillett, D W, Yates |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Letter education Beneficence Suicide Attempted Middle Aged humanities Treatment Refusal Paternalism Personal Autonomy Emergency Medicine Craniocerebral Trauma Humans Ethics Medical Mental Competency Drug Overdose Alcoholic Intoxication health care economics and organizations Research Article |
| Popis: | Doctors in accident and emergency departments are sometimes presented with patients with potentially life threatening conditions who refuse to consent to treatment. The doctors then face a dilemma: to withhold necessary treatment or to act against a patient's express wishes. Two such cases are presented, and we asked a lawyer, two medical ethicists, a psychiatrist, and an accident and emergency physician to comment on the implications. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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