Ethics and pain management: Respecting patient wishes
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Ethics, law, and pain management as a patient right.
Ethical and legal considerations in pain management typically relate to 2 issues. The first refers to pain management as a human right. The second involves the nature of the patient-physician relationship as it relates to pain management. Although pain physicians often like to think of pain management as a human right, it remains difficult to support this position as a point of law or as a matt...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/0885-3924(94)90125-2