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Dissolving the dilemma over forced treatment.

Authors :
Ravitsky, Vardit
Wendler, David
Source :
Lancet. 4/30/2005, Vol. 365 Issue 9470, p1525-1526. 2p.
Publication Year :
2005

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