Doctors' autonomy

Long-awaited autonomy in sight for SA's doctors.

Medical Paternalism and Patient Autonomy; the dualism doctors contend with..

421 Medical practitioners are beginning to realise that conflict between medical paternalism and patient autonomy would arise if they continue to uphold this dualism as distinct in all circumstances of medical practice. Information about an intended medical procedure or clinical research involving humans needs to be comprehensively transmitted so that the client can make a rational decision to ...

Quebec bill is an attack on doctors' autonomy.

[Patients' autonomy and doctors' duties according to the Andalusian bill of "dignified dead"].

The provisions of the andalusian Law on rights and guarantees of the dignity of persons in the process of death, also known as "act of dignified death", are based on two pillars: the right to the autonomy of the patient, supported, if it be, in a will expressed in instructions given in advance and the duties of doctors and health centers to give satisfaction, to the extent of their potential an...

Getting what we should from doctors: rethinking patient autonomy and the doctor-patient relationship.