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Doing right : a practical guide to ethics for physicians and medical trainees /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hébert, Philip Charles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Ethics, Medical.
Éthique médicale.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Principles behind ethically sound medicine
  • Ethical reasoning and principles in medicine
  • Three ethical pinciples and questions
  • Resolving ethical dilemmas
  • A good enough ethics decision procedure
  • A starving patient with anorexia: to feed or not to feed?
  • Automomy and patient care
  • The autonomy principle
  • The case of Mrs. Malette and Dr. Shulman
  • Living wills: choices of autonomy past
  • Unhealthy choices
  • Difficulty with the autonomy model
  • Confidentiality and its limits
  • Confidentiality.
  • Secrets and privacy
  • Limits to confidentiality
  • Duty to warn
  • Whistle blowing
  • Truth, lies and deception in clinical practice
  • The purpose of disclosure
  • The changing practice of medicine
  • Seven good reasons for telling the truth
  • Four exceptions to disclosure
  • The medical student's dilemna
  • Telling bad news
  • Due care and informed consent
  • Informed consent in practice
  • The doctor who didn't: the case of Mr. Reibl v. Dr. Hughes
  • The main elements of consent
  • Patients who withdraw consent.
  • Elective surgery and medical research
  • Quandaries for the medical learner
  • The duty of care and rescue: beneficence and non-maleficence
  • The duty to rescue
  • Due care and negligence
  • Minors and refusal of treatment by parents
  • Minors and parental requests for treatment: the case of Eve v. Mrs. E.
  • Futility and the hopelessly ill
  • Justice in medical care
  • Justice in everyday medicine
  • Minimal and optimal justice
  • Medically necessary treatment
  • Practice guidelines: a solution for just medicine in hard times.
  • The physician's master
  • Capacity and the duty to protect
  • Assessing capacity
  • Involuntary assessment and treatment
  • When not to rescue: Messrs Gallagher and Reid V. Dr. Fleming
  • The duty to protect
  • Failure to care for self
  • End-of-life decisions
  • Allowing death: the case of Nancy B.
  • Guidelines for non-cardio-plumonary-resuscitation orders
  • The case of Sue Rodriguez
  • Physician aid in dying
  • Conclusion
  • Notes.