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• Title:Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians / Bernard Lo.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lo, Bernard.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2005.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W50 .L622 2005
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-15-2025
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  Medicine--Decision making.
  Clinical medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Ethics, Clinical--Case Reports.
  
• Edition:3rd ed.
  
• Description:x, 309 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0781753570
  
• Contents:1. approach to ethical dilemmas in patient care
  2. Overview of ethical guidelines
  3. Informed consent
  4. Promoting the patient's best interests
  5. Confidentiality
  6. Avoiding deception and nondisclosure
  7. Keeping promises
  8. approach to decisions about clinical interventions
  9. Futile interventions
  10. Decision-making capacity
  11. Refusal of treatment by competent, informed patients
  12. Standards for decisions when patients lack decision-making capacity
  13. Surrogate decision making
  14. Persistent disagreements over care
  15. Confusing ethical distinctions
  16. Ethics committees and case consultations
  17. Do not attempt resuscitation orders
  18. Tube and intravenous feedings
  19. Physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia
  20. persistent vegetative state
  21. Determination of death
  22. Legal rulings on life-sustaining interventions
  23. Overview of the doctor-patient relationship
  24. Refusal to care for patients
  25. Gifts from patients to physicians
  26. Sexual contact between physicians and patients
  27. Secret information about patients
  28. Clinical research
  29. Overview of conflicts of interest
  30. Bedside rationing of health care
  31. Incentives for physicians to increase services
  32. Incentives for physicians to decrease services
  33. Gifts from drug companies
  34. Disclosing errors
  35. Impaired colleagues
  36. Ethical dilemmas students and house staff face
  37. Ethical issues in pediatrics
  38. Ethical issues in surgery
  39. Ethical issues in obstetrics and gynecology
  40. Ethical issues in psychiatry
  41. Ethical issues in organ transplantation
  42. Testing for genetic conditions
  43. Ethical issues in public health emergencies.