1. Dissolving the dilemma over forced treatment.
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Ravitsky, Vardit and Wendler, David
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INVOLUNTARY treatment , *PHYSICIAN-patient relations , *PATIENTS' rights , *MEDICAL ethics , *PATIENTS , *MEDICINE , *PHYSICIANS , *LEGAL status of patients , *SOCIETIES , *MEDICAL personnel , *ETHICS - Abstract
Looks at how doctors should respond to patients who have the capacity to make their own medical decisions yet refuse treatment that is in their interest. Question regarding whether or not societies should support the right of patients to make their own medical decisions; Discussion of how many countries allow patients who have decisional capacity to refuse treatment; Analysis of the Israeli Patients Rights Act, which allows clinicians, under specified conditions, to force treatment on patients who have decisional capacity; View that clinicians need not appeal to ethicists or courts to determine treatment but should appeal to an appropriate surrogate.
- Published
- 2005
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