Current legal regulations do not explicitly state whether the doctor should or should not
ignore the patient's refusal to be provided with medical services when such refusal is given …

Surely one of the most perplexing and troubling ethical issues for many health care workers
and family mem bers today is the controversy surrounding the artificial provision of food and …

One of the main tasks of higher medical education is to create conditions for the formation of
an educated, creative, comprehensively developed personality, citizen. In shaping the …

THE LAW The advance directive (or living will) appears to be legally binding. The autonomy
or right of self-determination of the patient entitles him to refuse treatment, or particular …

Physiological Approach to Evaluation of Physical Capacity Page 1 Physiological Approach to
Evaluation of Physical Capacity I I I WHM MORRIS, Ph.D. AND RB CHEVALIER, MD WEST …

Patients with'persistent vegetative state'(PVS) are often cited in the discussions of ethicists
as examples of human beings who are unconscious and do not experience life, and a …

Competence, or decision making capacity, refers to a patient's ability to understand a
situation and to make a choice in light of that understanding. It requires the physician to …

In the context of consent," voluntariness" refers to a patient's right to make health care
choices free of any undue influence. However, a patient's freedom to make choices can be …

In this paper, I explore under what circumstances it might be morally acceptable to transplant
organs from a patient lacking capacity. I argue, with a developed hypothetical based around …

Context: Doctors have been known to treat or give consultation to patients informally, with
none of the usual record keeping or follow up. They may wish to know whether this practice …