Resuscitating Patient Rights during the Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Risk of Resurgent Paternalism.
Camb Q Healthc Ethics
; 30(2): 215-221, 2021 04.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1203376
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 Pandemic a stress test for clinical medicine and medical ethics, with a confluence over questions of the proportionality of resuscitation. Drawing upon his experience as a clinical ethicist during the surge in New York City during the Spring of 2020, the author considers how attitudes regarding resuscitation have evolved since the inception of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders decades ago. Sharing a personal narrative about a DNR quandry he encountered as a medical intern, the author considers the balance of patient rights versus clinical discretion, warning about the risk of resurgent physician paternalism dressed up in the guise of a public health crisis.
Keywords
Full text:
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Resuscitation Orders
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Paternalism
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Patient Rights
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Camb Q Healthc Ethics
Journal subject:
Ethics
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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