Dilemmas and Decisions

Life saving intervention in the neonatal period: dilemmas and decisions.

In defending a patient's rights, whether it be 'to have prenatal diagnosis', 'to have a caesarean section', or 'to submit to lifesaving interventions', we must never lose sight of that most fundamental right of all-the right of choiceand the right not to have what doctors sometimes assume that patients will or should want. The right to die, or more specifically the right to die with dignity, co...

Training dilemmas and false dilemmas

Dilemmas and difficulties involving end-of-life decisions and palliative care in children.

This review discusses the main dilemmas and difficulties related to end-of-life decision's in children with terminal and irreversible diseases and propose a rational sequence for delivering palliative care to this patients' group. The Medline and Lilacs databases were searched using the terms 'end of life', 'palliative care', 'death' and 'terminal disease' for articles published in recent years...

Journeys towards the professionalisation of coaching: Dilemmas, dialogues and decisions along the global pathway

The term ‘profession’ derives from the Latin word ‘profiteor’ meaning to profess. Professionalisation, is the process whereby a gainful activity moves from the status of ‘occupation’ to the status of ‘profession’. Claims for professional status and the emergence of standards and awards are typical of the journey that occupations make (or attempt to make) towards professionalisation. However, so...

Time, uncertainty, and individual differences in decisions to cooperate in resource dilemmas.

Many environmental problems are resource dilemmas that contain two components-social and temporal-that encourage individuals not to act in the best interest of the group. Most research has focused on the social component. The authors examined the importance of the temporal component in two resource dilemma tasks. Participants (N = 112) reported their willingness to limit resource consumption in...