Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide For Clinicians - Couverture souple

Lo, Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0781753570 ISBN 13 : 9780781753579

Editeur : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005

Synopsis

Every day clinicians face ethical dilemmas, many of which result from medical advances and challenges in managed care. How practitioners resolve these challenges has a direct impact on patient care. This timely Third Edition will keep you up to date on a wide range of ethical dilemmas and new ways of thinking about them. Highlights of this edition include: important new material addressing federal privacy regulations, disclosure of medical errors, limits on residents' working hours, patient compliance with public health directives, genetic testing, gifts from drug companies, and more; revised sections on decision-making near the end of life; update on organ transplantation including living donations and financial incentives for donation; and more real-life cases to illustrate ethical dilemmas and challenge your critical thinking skills.This useful resource is a must-read for medical students and practicing professionals at every level of experience. It presents real patient problems and provides an easy-to-use format to help you develop an action plan that provides the best medical care to your patients.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This timely Fourth Edition offers clinicians expert guidance in approaching a wide range of ethical dilemmas and developing an action plan. Most chapters include real-life sample cases that the author walks through, discussing the salient issues and how to approach them. This edition includes new material on conscientious objection by physicians in reproductive health and other areas. Other topics addressed include cross-cultural care, disclosure of errors to patients, gifts to physicians from drug companies, involuntary psychiatric treatment, genomic medicine, and ethical issues during public health emergencies such as pandemics. The updated discussion of organ transplantation includes increasing the donor pool and non-heart beating donors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0781753570
• ISBN 13: 9780781753579
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible