medical paternalism

A philosophy that certain health decisions (e.g., whether to undergo heroic surgery, appropriateness of care in terminally ill patients) are best left in the hands of those providing healthcare.

medical paternalism

Medical ethics A philosophy that certain health decisions–eg, whether to undergo heroic surgery, appropriateness of care in terminally ill Pts, are best left in the hands of those providing health care. See Arato v Avedon. Cf Informed consent.

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We had some things in common, but my abiding thought was that although avoiding medical paternalism is the right thing to do, it can be a painful experience.

Avoiding paternalism but not moral perplexity

There may be a "right answer" according to society, but subjective knowledge developed in the public home place gives one the power to refute medical paternalism. Subjective knowledge becomes an act of resistance.

COMMENTARY: SOURCES OF MEDICAL (MIS)TRUST: HOW CAN WE IMPROVE FLU VACCINE RATES AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS?

Having not trained in an era steeped in medical paternalism, younger physicians are more likely to place the patient on the pedestal rather than themselves.

For Doctors, Age May Be More Than A Number

"To do no harm"--to act with "beneficence" and in accord with "the fundamental paradigm of medical paternalism" (p.

Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda

Keywords: Confidentiality, Informed consent, Medical paternalism, Patient rights.

AWARENESS AMONG HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS OF THEIR RIGHTS: A CROSS SECTIONAL SURVEY FROM TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF RAWALPINDI

For example, medical paternalism, the base of the Hippocratic Oath, was replaced by the patients' rights, invoking the moral and legal autonomy of them, forcing the physician to consider as prima facie duties, in addition to the autonomy duty, the beneficence and non-maleficence ones.

With regard to the reform of the law of medical ethics/A proposito de la reforma de la ley de etica medica

He noted that the doctor had failed to inform his patient of the risks of the operation he was to undertake and said: "Medical paternalism no longer rules in modern law, and a patient has a prima facie right to be informed by a surgeon of a small but well-established risk of serious injury as a result of the surgery."

Our View: Era of arrogant, super-confident doctors is coming to an end

Now many of them strongly argue that medical paternalism is justified when people doctors deem to have a poor quality of life dare to consider their own lives worth living and seek life-saving medical treatment, food, and fluids.

Euthanasia's busy year: rationing, involuntary denial of treatment, and direct killing

(70) What are the characteristics of medical paternalism and why did it wane?

There will be sharing: population biobanks, the duty to inform and the limitations of the individualistic conception of autonomy

This shift, towards a greater focus on patients' rights and the questioning of medical authority, went hand in hand with greater emphasis on patient autonomy and resistance to medical paternalism.

From medical manners to moral reasoning: an historical overview of bioethics in the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences

Jane Wilson's chapter focuses on medical paternalism and attempts to come to grips with a non-reductive justification of paternalism.

Matti Hayry, Tuija Takala, Peter Herissone-Kelly and Gardar Arnason, eds.: Arguments and Analysis in Bioethics