| Edition |
Fifth edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 372 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An approach to ethical dilemmas in patient care -- Overview of ethical guidelines -- Informed consent -- Promoting the patient's best interests -- Confidentiality -- Avoiding deception and nondisclosure -- Keeping promises -- An approach to decisions about clinical interventions -- Futile interventions -- Decision-making capacity -- Refusal of treatment by competent, informed patients -- Standards for decisions when patients lack decision-making capacity -- Surrogate decision making -- Persistent disagreements over care -- Confusing ethical distinctions -- Ethics consultations and ethics committees -- Do not attempt resuscitation orders -- Tube feedings -- Physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia -- The persistent vegetative state -- Determination of death -- Legal rulings on life-sustaining interventions -- Overview of the doctor-patient relationship -- Refusal to care for patients -- Gifts from patients to physicians -- Sexual contact between physicians and patients -- Secret information about patients -- Clinical research -- Overview conflicts of interest -- Bedside rationing of health care -- Incentives for physicians to increase services -- Measures to control health care costs -- Gifts from drug companies -- Disclosing errors -- Impaired colleagues -- Ethical dilemmas students and house staff face -- Ethical issues in pediatrics -- Ethical issues in surgery -- Ethical issues in obstetrics and gynecology -- Ethical issues in psychiatry -- Ethical issues in organ transplantation -- Ethical issues in genomic medicine -- Ethical issues in public health emergencies -- Ethical issues in cross-cultural care -- Ethical issues in digital health information. |
| Summary |
"Every day clinicians encounter ethical dilemmas that have a direct impact on patient care. This timely Fourth Edition will give you expert guidance in approaching a wide range of ethical dilemmas and developing an action plan even when competing points of view have equal merit. Most chapters include real-life sample cases that the author walks through, discussing the salient issues and how to approach them." "This useful resource is a must-read for medical students and practicing professionals at every level of experience!"--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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Medical ethics. (OCoLC)fst01014081
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Ethics, Clinical. (DNLM)D026690
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| Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lo, Bernard. Resolving ethical dilemmas. 5th ed. Philadelphia : W olters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2013 9781451176407 (DLC) 2012030892 (OCoLC)804491377 |
| ISBN |
9781469826066 (electronic bk.) |
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1469826062 (electronic bk.) |
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9781469826561 |
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1469826569 |
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9781451176407 |
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1451176406 |
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