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| An approach to ethical dilemmas in patient care | |
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| Overview of ethical guidelines | |
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| Informed consent | |
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| Promoting the patient's best interests | |
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| Confidentiality | |
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| Avoiding deception and nondisclosure | |
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| Keeping promises | |
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| An approach to decisions about clinical interventions | |
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| Futile interventions | |
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| Decision-making capacity | |
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| Refusal of treatment by competent, informed patients | |
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| Standards for decisions when patients lack decision-making capacity | |
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| Surrogate decision making | |
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| Persistent disagreements over care | |
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| Confusing ethical distinctions | |
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| Ethics committees and case consultations | |
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| Do not attempt resuscitation orders | |
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| Tube and intravenous feedings | |
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| Physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia | |
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| The persistent vegetative state | |
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| Determination of death | |
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| Legal rulings on life-sustaining interventions | |
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| Overview of the doctor-patient relationship | |
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| Refusal to care for patients | |
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| Gifts from patients to physicians | |
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| Sexual contact between physicians and patients | |
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| Secret information about patients | |
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| Clinical research | |
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| Overview of conflicts of interest | |
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| Bedside rationing of health care | |
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| Incentives for physicians to increase services | |
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| Incentives for physicians to decrease services | |
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| Gifts from drug companies | |
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| Disclosing errors | |
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| Impaired colleagues | |
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| Ethical dilemmas students and house staff face | |
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| Ethical issues in pediatrics | |
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| Ethical issues in surgery | |
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| Ethical issues in obstetrics and gynecology | |
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| Ethical issues in psychiatry | |
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| Ethical issues in organ transplantation | |
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| Testing for genetic conditions | |
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| Ethical issues in public health emergencies | |