Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment
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Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-193) and index
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ISBN 9780801850363
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In this text, Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker address issues that have occupied the media and the courts since the time of Karen Ann Quinlan. The authors examine the ethics of cases in which medical treatment is offered - or mandated even if a patient lacks the capacity to appreciate the benefit of it or if the treatment will still leave a patient totally dependent on intensive medical care. As medical costs soar and technology proliferates, an intense controversy has arisen over the notion of medical futility. Should doctors be doing all that they are doing? Are patients and families entitled to demand any treatment they wish from a physician? Should life-support be considered futile if the patient is permanently unconscious or too sick to leave the intensive care setting? In exploring these questions, Schneiderman and Jecker re-examine the doctor-patient relationship and call for a restoration of common sense and reality to what we expect from medicine.
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: pbk ISBN 9780801863721
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In Wrong Medicine, Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D., and Nancy S. Jacker, Ph.D., address issues that have occupied the media and the courts since the time of Karen Ann Quinlan. The authors examine the ethics of cases in which medical treatment is offered -- or mandated -- even if a patient lacks the capacity to appreciate its benefit or if the treatment will still leave a patient totally dependent on intensive medical care. In exploring these timely issues Schneiderman and Jecker reexamine the doctor-patient relationship and call for a restoration of common sense and reality to what we expect from medicine. They discuss economic, historical, and demographic factors that affect medical care and offer clear definitions of what constitutes futile medical treatment. And they address such topics as the limits on unwanted treatment, the shift from the "Age of Physician Paternalism" to the "Age of Patient Autonomy", health care rationing, and the adoption of new ethical standards.
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