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

‘Monster’ surgeon Ian Paterson was jailed for 15 years in 2017, a sentence that was subsequently increased to 20 years (PA) After all, patient consent is much more than a signature on a page – it is ...

A RIGHTS-based approach to mental health legislation which enhances patient autonomy is the key recommendation arising from an interim report by a Government-appointed steering group set up to review ...

Patient autonomy is one of the four pillars of modern medical ethics. In some cases, however, its value is not absolute and autonomy may be overridden by sufficiently important matters of public ...

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 ...

COVID-19 has changed many things about society, and one of the most significant is the erosion of the taboo surrounding death. After all, we have daily bulletins on death figures. As Dignity in Dying ...

Patient autonomy includes the patient's rights to give or withhold consent for treatment, privacy and confidentiality. These tenets should not be violated or significantly compromised except in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among high-risk patients, discussion of do-not-resuscitate orders should take place prior to hospitalization, as ...

Last month, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a bill lawmakers passed called “Deb’s Law” that enables terminally ill patients to request a prescription from their doctor to end their ...