Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609. Case and Commentary Aug 2005 Disclosing Error to a Patient: Physician-to-Patient Communication Geoffrey H. Gordon, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(8):537-540. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.8.ccas1-0508. Case and Commentary Aug 2004 Helping Surrogate Decision Makers in the Face of Uncertainty Robert W. Taylor, MD Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(8):342-344. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.8.ccas2-0408. Medicine and Society Jun 2007 End-of-Life Care and the Goals of Medicine Bruce Jennings, MA Bioethicist Bruce Jennings examines the changing role of physicians in end-of-life care, from paternalistic decision maker to advisor-technician and half-way back. Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(6):446-450. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.6.msoc1-0706.
Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609.
Case and Commentary Aug 2005 Disclosing Error to a Patient: Physician-to-Patient Communication Geoffrey H. Gordon, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(8):537-540. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.8.ccas1-0508.
Case and Commentary Aug 2004 Helping Surrogate Decision Makers in the Face of Uncertainty Robert W. Taylor, MD Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(8):342-344. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.8.ccas2-0408.
Medicine and Society Jun 2007 End-of-Life Care and the Goals of Medicine Bruce Jennings, MA Bioethicist Bruce Jennings examines the changing role of physicians in end-of-life care, from paternalistic decision maker to advisor-technician and half-way back. Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(6):446-450. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.6.msoc1-0706.