Respecting autonomy in anorexia must not lead to abandonment, as supporting choice and preserving life can and should coexist ...

Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that fact.” He provided no ...

Insurance exchanges encourage patient autonomy Too often, patients rely on the provider to 'fix them,' signifying an unwillingness to be participants in their own care. The recently launched Health ...

Smith and Mackie’s feature article addresses the worry that vaccine mandates—for example, requiring employees to get the ...

Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 24, No. 6 (Dec., 1998), pp. 394-400 (7 pages) Background—Patient autonomy has gradually replaced physician paternalism as an ethical ideal. However, in a medical ...

But the reality is more complicated. The same structures that simplify a physician's life can also limit autonomy, because ...

A new patient-reported outcomes tool is helping to shift the way end-of-life and depression-related conversations are occurring between patients with multiple myeloma and their health care teams. A ...

Joyce O'Shaughnessy, MD, reflects on the important principle of patient autonomy and how, as a younger clinician, she encountered a patient with breast cancer who refused early intervention with ...

The major criticism brought against the recommendations is that they unacceptably override patients’ consent, and hence their autonomy, which is the chief value protected by informed consent ...

May is the month most American medical students finally see four years of grueling work bear fruit. Most U.S. medical schools hold commencement exercises in May, conferring "doctor of medicine" ...

The fear of expectation and the unknown may often lead patients to refuse screenings or tests. It’s your job to try and help ...