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Conflict between Doctor and Patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

Susan M. Wolf
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Extract

“The belief that doctors can act on behalf of patients denies the existence of inevitable conflict.”

—Jay Katz

Type
The Silent World
Information
Law, Medicine and Healthcare , Volume 16 , Issue 3-4 , Winter 1988 , pp. 197 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1988

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References

Katz, Jay, The Silent World of Doctor and Patient (New York: Free Press, 1984), 99.Google Scholar
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See, e.g., President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983), 4, 5, 9; The Hastings Center, Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).Google Scholar
Blackhall, Leslie J., “Must We Always Use CPR?”, New England Journal of Medicine, 317 (Nov. 1987): 1281–85. For additional discussion of futility, see, e.g., Lo, Bernard and Steinbrook, Robert L., “Deciding Whether to Resuscitate”, Archives of Internal Medicine, 143 (Aug. 1983): 1561–63.Google Scholar
In re Jobes, 108 N.J. 394, 529 A.2d 434 (1987).Google Scholar