Refusal of care: Patients' well-being and physicians' ethical obligations: "But Doctor, I want to go home"

Article Abstract:

A case of a hospitalized elderly woman is presented, wherein the bedbound patient, lacking social support and financial resources to manage safely, insists on returning home on discharge, and the medical team requests an ethical consultation on the matter. Issues related to this ethical problem are discussed, including a review of the patient's role in decision-making, patients' rights as compared to their well-being, consideration of physician values, and responding to patients' refusal of care.

Ethics, Care and treatment, Decision-making, Decision making, Patient compliance, Ethical aspects, Aged patients, Elderly patients

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Is there a doctor in the house?... Or the senate?: Physicians in US Congress, 1960-2004

Article Abstract:

Physician representation in the US Congress between 1960 and 2004 is described and the results are related to past representation of physicians in Congress. It was found that physician representation in Congress is low and is in stark contrast with physician roles during the first century of the United States.

Political activity, Surveys, Congressional candidates

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Hunger strikes, force-feeding, and physicians' responsibilities

Article Abstract:

The article discusses on the medical aspects of starvation and clinical, ethical, legal, and human rights responsibilities of physicians who care for prisoners who hunger strike.

Health aspects, Social aspects, Starvation, Hunger strikes

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