The role of any medical team member ought to be to facilitate the decisions of the patient. The question is not what any health care provider would do for herself but what the informed patient would w ant...
Sometimes I think we can put too much emphasis on autonomy alone. There is, after all, beneficience, distributive justice and even the dreaded rationing (or maybe better-community benefit) to consider Yes...
I would make two arguments. First, the idea of autonomy is important but that does not mean the committee is an advocate for the patient but instead that the committee is an advocate for a specific so cial...
For an Ethics Committee to gain the trust and maybe even respect of all parties (hospital, hspoital employees, health care professionals, patients and families and the general public) doesn't it have to...
Sympathy, empathy and other ideas talking about being a caring and feeling physician are all valuable and important to a professional relationship so long as the physician is still able to offer her b est...
Eric, I agree that we cannot really answer without knowing more facts. If we assume your facts then it is true that an informed competent patient may refuse even life sustaining interventions and can do...
There are manypossible issues here and a need for more facts. Does the patient know, or for that matter, want to know her condition? Does the patient have cultural or religious issues? Is it really a life...
If you believe Michael Jordan you ought to stop at the top of your game. You need to ask yourself and your colleagues:
1. Am I competent?
2. Am I having fun and enjoying my practice?
Looking only at the legal issues if this was a true life threatening emergency then consent is not required. Did the mother give an informed refusal? If she did then the hospital could, if there was t ime...
The question says "legal surrogate" which must mean either that the individual was appointed by a court as a guardian or that the individual was named as an advocate in a legally valid advance directi ve...
The role of an ethics committee is to provide education, assist with the creation of policies on ethical issues and provide recommendations on caes with ethical issues. Committies are purely advisory. So...