The Patient Self-Determination Act
Subtitle: Meeting the Challenges in Patient Care (Clinical Medical Ethics (Georgetown Univ Pr))
Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780878407477
Subjects: Medical Ethics; Medicolegal issues; legislation & jurisprudence; Patients; Physician-Patient Interaction; Medical; Medical / Nursing; United States; USA; Legal status, laws, etc; Legal status, laws, etc.; Ethics; Right to die; Treatment Refusal
First sentence: The requirements of the Patient Self-Determination Act are deceptively simple, but they carry profound implications for the way healthcare is practiced.