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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even as we spend more on healthcare every year, the number of people with chronic health problems continues to rise in developed countries like the United States. Most of these chronic health problems ...

In their article on handling incidental findings, Ells and Thombs1 compare the extensive official guidance available in the United States with the rather more concise comments for Canadian researchers ...