The duty to treat

Doubtful duty: physicians' legal obligation to treat during an epidemic.

INTRODUCTION 657 L HISTORICAL ORIGINS 660 A, Emergence of the American Medical Association 661 B, Relationship Between Law and Ethics ,. 664 C, Reluctance to Treat 666 IL IN THE ABSENCE OF AN "EMERGENCY" 668 K. Americans with Disabilities Act 669 B. Direct Threat 671 C. Specialists 674 D, State Laws 676 E, Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act 678 in. EMERGENCY LEGAL FRAMEWORK 682 A,...

Opening the closed doors: the duty of hospitals to treat emergency patients.

Developing the duty to treat: HIV, SARS, and the next epidemic.

SARS, like HIV, placed healthcare workers at risk and raised issues about the duty to treat. But philosophical accounts of the duty to treat that were developed in the context of HIV did not adequately address some of the ethical issues raised by SARS. Since the next epidemic may be more like SARS than HIV, it is important to illuminate these issues. In this paper, we sketch a general account o...

Without consent: moral imperatives, special abilities, and the duty to treat.

Can "presumed consent" justify the duty to treat infectious diseases? An analysis

BACKGROUND AIDS, SARS, and the recent epidemics of the avian-flu have all served to remind us the debate over the limits of the moral duty to care. It is important to first consider the question of whether or not the "duty to treat" might be subject to contextual constraints. The purpose of this study was to investigate the opinions and beliefs held by both physicians and dentists regarding the...