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    Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians / Bernard Lo.

    • 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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    • 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.
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