Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians - Softcover

Lo, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0781753570 ISBN 13: 9780781753579

Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005

Synopsis

Every day clinicians face ethical dilemmas, many of which result from medical advances and challenges in managed care. How practitioners resolve these challenges has a direct impact on patient care. This timely Third Edition will keep you up to date on a wide range of ethical dilemmas and new ways of thinking about them. Highlights of this edition include: important new material addressing federal privacy regulations, disclosure of medical errors, limits on residents' working hours, patient compliance with public health directives, genetic testing, gifts from drug companies, and more; revised sections on decision-making near the end of life; update on organ transplantation including living donations and financial incentives for donation; and more real-life cases to illustrate ethical dilemmas and challenge your critical thinking skills.This useful resource is a must-read for medical students and practicing professionals at every level of experience. It presents real patient problems and provides an easy-to-use format to help you develop an action plan that provides the best medical care to your patients.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0781753570
• ISBN 13: 9780781753579
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 320