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Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians / Bernard Lo.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lo, Bernard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics.
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Ethics, Medical.
- medicines (material).
- professional ethics.
- humanities.
- medicine (discipline).
- Medical Subjects:
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 372 pages)
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013.
- Summary:
- "Every day clinicians encounter ethical dilemmas that have a direct impact on patient care. This timely Fourth Edition will give you expert guidance in approaching a wide range of ethical dilemmas and developing an action plan even when competing points of view have equal merit. Most chapters include real-life sample cases that the author walks through, discussing the salient issues and how to approach them." "This useful resource is a must-read for medical students and practicing professionals at every level of experience!"--Jacket.
- 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 consultations and ethics committees
- Do not attempt resuscitation orders
- Tube feedings
- Physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia
- The persistent vegetative state
- Determination of death
- Legal rulings on life-sustaining interventions
- Overview of the doctor-patient relationship
- Refusal to care for patients
- Gifts from patients to physicians
- Sexual contact between physicians and patients
- Secret information about patients
- Clinical research
- Overview conflicts of interest
- Bedside rationing of health care
- Incentives for physicians to increase services
- Measures to control health care costs
- 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
- Ethical issues in genomic medicine
- Ethical issues in public health emergencies
- Ethical issues in cross-cultural care
- Ethical issues in digital health information.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lo, Bernard. Resolving ethical dilemmas.
- ISBN:
- 9781469826066
- 1469826062
- 9781469826561
- 1469826569
- 1469822733
- 9781469822730
- 1469874377
- 9781469874371
- OCLC:
- 857067301
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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