Ethical Considerations in Respecting Patient's Autonomy and Right to Refuse Treatment: A case Report

The right to refuse treatment: administrative considerations.

The psychiatric administrator tends to view the subject "the right to refu.se treatment" with trepidation, particularly if he is responsible for a public psychiatric hospital to which involuntary patients are committed. It is there that the passing of the patient from one treatment program to another stops. Other administrators representing community out-patient clinics, mental health centers, ...

The right to refuse treatment.

medication error and its ethical considerations: a case report

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Saving Life or Respecting Autonomy: The Ethical Dilemma of DNR Orders in Patients Who Attempt Suicide

Extensive bioethics literature discusses DNR orders, but comparatively little has been published on a topic that involves almost every aspect of end-of-life decision making: DNR orders in patients who attempt suicide. Ethics consultants are increasingly confronted with this dilemma in an area where there is little legal guidance or ethical consensus. A case-based analysis of the arguments for a...

Autonomy of Children and Adolescents in Consent to Treatment: Ethical, Jurisprudential and Legal Considerations

Autonomy is usually considered as a main principle in making decisions about individuals' health. Children and particularly adolescents have the capacity to take part in medical decision-making to some extent. For the most part the parent-doctor-child/adolescent triangle sides are essentially in agreement, but this may not be true in some cases, causing physicians to face problems attempting to...

Commentary. 1: The right to refuse treatment.

The author suggests that by providing ventilators (or other equipment) with a mechanism which would automatically switch them off, (thus allowing the patient to die without the intervention of another human being switching the machine off) doctors would somehow be spared the moral dilemma and responsibility of acceding to a patient's request for a life-support system to be withdrawn. This "lega...