Pediatric medical decision-making (PDM) entails a therapeutic alliance of minor patient,
guardian (s), and provider (s) operating within a complex moral, institutional, and societal …

ABSTRACT In 2019, three-year-old Noah McAdams in Hillsborough County, Florida
captured headlines when his parents stopped providing him chemotherapy for leukemia. His …

Background Parents have a constitutionally-protected, fundamental right to make decisions
concerning the health and well-being of their children, afforded by the Due Process Clause …

One of the basic tenets of paediatric ethics is that competent parents may render healthcare
decisions for children who are too young or too incapacitated to make meaningful medical …

Outcomes 1. Describe how concerns for medical neglect arise in children with complex life-
limiting conditions are different from medical neglect in simple or non–life-limiting conditions …

Some of the most challenging and contentious issues in pediatric bioethics center around
disagreements between individuals caring for the child in question. In contrast with the …

Objectives Distinguish between the ''best interest standard''and ''the harm principle''in the
evaluation of familial medical decision making in pediatrics and analyze the strengths and …

An ongoing debate in the medical literature focuses on what standard should be used by
physicians and courts to overrule parental medical decisions for minors. While McDougall …

Dale L. Moored jyjUCH OF THE DIALOGUE ABOUT medical treatment decisions involving
children, particularly infants, has been dominated by illustrations and discussions of …

Although medical decisions parents make on behalf of their children often conflict with
children's objective welfare, it is frequently presumed that parents enjoy broad discretion …