The Patient Self-Determination Act
Subtitle: Meeting the Challenges in Patient Care (Clinical Medical Ethics (Washington, D.C.).)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780878407484
Subjects: General practice; Medical Ethics; Right to Die; Medical Law & Legislation; Physician-Patient Interaction; United States; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Psychology; Patients; Ethics; Legal status, laws, etc.; Treatment Refusal; legislation & jurisprudence; Physician & Patient; Legal status, laws, etc
First sentence: The requirements of the Patient Self-Determination Act are deceptively simple, but they carry profound implications for the way healthcare is practiced.
Description: "The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 required medical facilities to provide patients with written notification of their right to refuse or consent to medical treatment. Using this act as an important vehicle for improving the health care decision-making process, Lawrence P. Ulrich explains the social, legal, and ethical background to the act by focusing on well-known cases such as those of Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan, and he explores ways in which physicians and other caregivers can help patients face the complex issues in contemporary health care practices." "This book provides concrete guidance to health care professionals, medical ethicits, and patient-rights advocates."--Jacket.