Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians

Every day clinicians face ethical dilemmas, many of which result from medical advances and challenges in managed care. How practitioners resolve these challenges has a direct impact on patient care. This timely Third Edition will keep you up to date on a wide range of ethical dilemmas and new ways of thought about them.

Highlights of this edition include:

• Vital new material addressing federal privacy set of laws, disclosure of medical errors, limits on residents’ working hours, patient compliance with broadcast health directives, genetic testing, gifts from drug companies, and more
• Revised sections on choice-making near the end of life
• Update on organ transplantation including living donations and financial incentives for donation
• Plus more real-life cases to illustrate ethical dilemmas and challenge your critical thought skills

This helpful resource is a must-read for medical students and involved professionals at every level of experience. It presents real patient problems and provides an simple-to-use format to help you develop an action plot that provides the best medical care to your patients.