The Right Choice?
The Right Choice?
The Right Choice? A New Chapter
We must not forget how significant our relationships with our patients can be.
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Communication and consent
Good communication skills including listening to the patient and the patient’s reasoning are essential in obtaining informed consent.
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The Right Choice? Modifiable risk factors and surgical decision making
Surgeons allow significant latitude for patients to make individual decisions about assuming greater or lesser risks.
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The Right Choice? Mixed feelings about a recent informed consent court decision
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court weighed in on the topic of informed consent.
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The right choice? Surgery “offered” or “recommended”?
We must accept that patients can refuse even the most strongly recommended treatments.
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The right choice? Surgical ethics and the history of surgery
Attention to the ethical issues in the care of surgical patients is a widespread phenomenon.
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Conflicts and the ethical practice of surgery
Once a month in my department, we focus on a case with challenging ethical considerations for part of the discussion at the M & M conference....
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The right choice? Surgeons, confidence, and humility
It started as an offhand comment. The patient had been on the medicine service for over a week before developing acute appendicitis with an...
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The Right Choice? Surgeons, confidence, and humility
Most successful surgeons express a level of confidence in their abilities which often exceeds that of many other physicians. Such observations...