Responsibility to or for in the physician-patient relationship?
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Responsibility to or for in the physician-patient relationship?
The threat of malpractice litigation in the United States is encouraging physicians again to assume responsibility for their patients. The fundamental ethical problem, however, is that this approach denies the patient's moral agency. In this essay, responsibility to patients, rather than for them, is discussed as an alternative to the emerging neo-paternalism. Responsibility to avoids the ethic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.21.2.112