Nurses interact with people during some of their most vulnerable moments and in highly personal ways. It’s why they often find themselves confronted with challenging ethical dilemmas that require ...
Terminally ill people have autonomy in our lives, we must also have a choice in how we die, writes Shafaq Sikandar The House ...
Joyce O'Shaughnessy, MD, reflects on the important principle of patient autonomy and how, as a younger clinician, she encountered a patient with breast cancer who refused early intervention with ...
Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 24, No. 6 (Dec., 1998), pp. 394-400 (7 pages) Background—Patient autonomy has gradually replaced physician paternalism as an ethical ideal. However, in a medical ...
Patient rights are a fundamental aspect of modern health care, encapsulating key ethical principles and legal protections for individuals receiving medical care. These rights have evolved over the ...
Last month, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a bill lawmakers passed called “Deb’s Law” that enables terminally ill patients to request a prescription from their doctor to end their ...
Setting aside the usual hot button issues in bioethics - stem cell research, end-of-life decision making - Edmund Pellegrino, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, focused on "the ...
Medscape contributor Andrew N. Wilner, MD, recently encountered a vexing problem in his practice as a neurologist: multiple patients refusing medical treatment, at great cost to their own health and ...
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