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Dissolving the dilemma over forced treatment.
- Source :
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Lancet . 4/30/2005, Vol. 365 Issue 9470, p1525-1526. 2p. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01406736
- Volume :
- 365
- Issue :
- 9470
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Lancet
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16966945
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66436-7