Medical Decision and Patient's Preference: 'Much Ethics' and More Trust Always Needed

There is much discussion on medical ethics literature regarding the importance of the patients' right for self-determination. We discuss some of the limitations of patient's autonomy with the aim to draw attention to the ethical complexity of medical decision making in the everyday clinica...

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Autores principales: Anyfantakis, Dimitrios, Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ivyspring International Publisher 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3107468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21647328
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spelling pubmed-31074682011-06-06 Medical Decision and Patient's Preference: 'Much Ethics' and More Trust Always Needed Anyfantakis, Dimitrios Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K Int J Med Sci Letter There is much discussion on medical ethics literature regarding the importance of the patients' right for self-determination. We discuss some of the limitations of patient's autonomy with the aim to draw attention to the ethical complexity of medical decision making in the everyday clinical practice. Ivyspring International Publisher 2011-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3107468/ /pubmed/21647328 Text en © Ivyspring International Publisher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Reproduction is permitted for personal, noncommercial use, provided that the article is in whole, unmodified, and properly cited.
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