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Consent - Bridging The Gap Between Doctor And Patient (Paperback)
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Consent - Bridging The Gap Between Doctor And Patient (Paperback)
Series: Undercurrents
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Loot Price R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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The traditional Hippocratic Oath sworn by generations of doctors
requires the physician to "prescribe regimen for the good of my
patients according to my ability and my judgement and never do harm
to anyone." The patient's views as to what constituted her "good"
did not have to be canvassed. Like many hitherto unexamined aspects
of Irish society, the relationship between doctor and patient has
been re-evaluated in recent years. In theory, at least, we now live
in a society where the patient, and not the doctor, knows best,
where an individual's consent is a fundamental prerequisite for any
medical procedure. Yet, in spite of the importance afforded to
consent by legal, ethical, and medical commentators, the reality is
that genuine and informed consent to medical procedures is often
absent. Many patients, either by choice or because they have no
alternative, still leave the responsibility for health-care
decisions in the hands of physicians.This book looks at the
requirement for consent to medical procedures. It considers how
this requirement has assumed the important position it now holds
and examines the way in which the requirement is given legal force.
It asks why Ireland's health-care system operates in a way that
fails to deliver genuine and informed consent and why the legal
system fails to make it do so. The book also questions whether the
focus on consent creates an unnecessary distance in the
relationship between physician and patient. It argues that a
revision of existing legal frameworks is important in order to
protect patients' rights and suggests a solution. However, it also
argues that the law is a limited tool which can never fully take
account of the complexities of thedoctor-patient relationship, and
that a more effective means of ensuring greater patient
participation in health-care decision-making is needed.
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