
#94 Treatment Over Objection Part 1: At the Bedside Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Challenges of Treatment Over Objections
There are definitely ethical challenges because you have over here a confrontation between two major ethical principles in bio ethics, principle of autonomy. Adult patients have a right to decide what should or should not be done to them. And just because a patient is felt to lack capacity does not mean that they forfeit their rights as a human being. There is also the principle of non maleficence.
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