An anesthesiologist’s personal account describes how her father’s care decisions were overridden by physicians despite her mother holding medical power of attorney. The case underscores growing ...
"Why haven't they scheduled your dad for his feeding tube placement? They just want another family conference." I sighed and told my mother we may have to fight. The physicians caring for my father ...
Even today there are patients who leave diagnosis and treatment entirely to their doctors. They make no effort to inform themselves about their illness or chart their own course; they do whatever ...
Listen to ASCO’s JCO Oncology Practice Art of Oncology article, "No Versus Know: Patient Empowerment Through Shared Decision Making” by Dr. Beatrice Preti, who is an Assistant Professor at Emory ...
In an op-ed in The New York Times titled "Three Cheers for the Nanny State," Sarah Conly, a philosophy professor at Bowdown College and author of Against Autonomy, dismisses principled concerns about ...
Bill Glod concludes the essay series on paternalism by discussing why opposition to it matters, including but not limited to: ...
Background Shared decision making (SDM) is advocated as an approach for patient-centred asthma care. However, this approach ...
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