Ethical Choices: Case Studies for Medical Practice

by Snyder, Lois

• ISBN13: 9781930513570
• ISBN10: 1930513577
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

Summary

Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Case studies offer a guide to clinical ethics, research ethics, and professionalism issues. Presents an ethical issues relevant to today's practice, possible physician responses and motivations, and the ethical course of action. Case commentary taken from the ACP Ethics Manual, 4th edition, c1998. Previous edition: c1996.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Foreword to the First Edition	p. xiv
Introduction to Medical Ethics	p. xvii
The Patient and the Physician: The Clinical Encounter
Deciding How Much Care Is Too Much	p. 3
Should Doctors Treat Their Relatives?	p. 9
When Patients Want Alternative Therapies	p. 15
The Ethical Dilemma of Genetic Testing	p. 22
Talking About Organ Procurement When A Patient Dies	p. 28
Physician-Assisted Suicide	p. 33
Physician-Assisted Suicide Revisited: Comfort and Care at the End of Life	p. 41
Ethics and Elder Neglect	p. 48
The Patient and the Physician: Non-Clinical Dimensions of the Relationship
Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements: How Should You Handle the Pressure?	p. 57
Documenting Sensitive Information: A Dilemma for Physicians	p. 63
The Older Impaired Driver	p. 70
Referrals and Patient Wishes	p. 77
Patient Prejudice	p. 82
Do You Need to Tell Patients About Mistakes?	p. 87
Disclosure of Errors and the Threat of Malpractice	p. 94
Sex and the Single Physician	p. 99
Medicine's Collective Obligations
Nursing Home "Dumps": Should You Go Along or Speak Up?	p. 107
Industry-Sponsored Trials and Community Doctors	p. 112
Checking Up on Immigrants: A Job for Physicians?	p. 119
Should Doctors Participate in Executions?	p. 123
Ethics and Medicaid Patients	p. 130
The Duty to Treat HIV-Positive Patients	p. 136
The Impaired Colleague	p. 143
When Residents and Attendings Disagree	p. 148
Medical Residents, Attendings, and Mistakes	p. 154
The Business of Medicine: Effects on the Patient-Physician Relationship
Are Health Plan Incentives Hurting Generalist-Specialist Relationships?	p. 163
Financial Incentives and Physician Decision-Making	p. 169
Pharmaceutical Industry Support of Continuing Medical Education	p. 176
Index	p. 185
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