This book explores and offers guidance for the 20 most common ethical problems in primary care settings. While many books in medical ethics focus on more abstract principles and their applications, this book answers practical questions about how to make ethical choices and balance interests in difficult clinical situations such as: what do you do when you suspect abuse; how do you keep patients informed when facing a gag rule; should I lie to my patient when I think it's in the patient's best interest; when should I treat a minor without the parent's consent. The topics include: advance directives, competency and decision making capacity, consultation and referral, genetic testing, home care/hospice, informed consent, managed care, refusal of treatment, suspected abuse and neglect, treating minors, treatment at the end of life, and more.
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Overall, for physician providers care medicine wishing to imbibe knowledge of a practical nature, germane to the principles and values that form the bedrock of bioethics, this book is a deep, if not fathomless, ocean of ethical wisdom and knowledge Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 20010301
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Not just for doctors--but especially for some doctors,
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^ Dr. Sugarman's book, while directed at primary-care physicians, should be interesting for anybody who cares about the American health care system.For physicians, it could be more than interesting. It should make some clinicians bend their minds to thinking about unaccustomed deep issues. And important ones. The book should function as a much-needed antidote to the poisonous notion that "I'm the doctor, so what I do is right." (Ms. Giddings is a health care researcher)
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More than ever before, clinicians practicing primary care are likely to encounter patients who request or insist upon specific interventions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
specialized consent statutes, alleged risk factor, advance care planning, primary clinician, representative vignettes, preventive health care measures, inappropriate requests, primary care clinician, moral warrant, effective deliberation, medical exemptions, mandatory reporting laws, care clinicians Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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More than ever before, clinicians practicing primary care are likely to encounter patients who request or insist upon specific interventions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
specialized consent statutes, alleged risk factor, advance care planning, primary clinician, representative vignettes, preventive health care measures, inappropriate requests, primary care clinician, moral warrant, effective deliberation, medical exemptions, mandatory reporting laws, care clinicians Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Medical Association, New York, United States, Problems Related, Oxford University Press, Arch Intern Med, Ann Intern Med, American College of Physicians, Supreme Court, Current Opinions, Hastings Cent Rep, Geriatr Soc, Government Printing Office, Clin Ethics, Ann Emerg Med, Assess Decision-Making Capacity, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Problems Kelated, Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Arch Fam Med, Assessing Competence, Harvard University Press, Making Health Care Decisions, Soc Sci Med, Brad Lyons New!
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- Ethics Manual by American College of Physicians on 5 pages
- Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Sixth Edition by Albert Jonsen on 4 pages
- A History and Theory of Informed Consent by Ruth R. Faden on page 236, page 237, and page 254
- Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals by Thomas Grisso on page 236, and page 237
- Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine by Derek Doyle on page 128, and page 206
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