Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians / Bernard Lo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An approach to ethical dilemmas in patient care -- Overview of ethical guidelines -- Informed consent -- Promoting best interests -- Confidentiality -- Avoiding deception, nondisclosure -- Keeping promises -- An approach to decisions -- Futile interventions -- Decision-making capacity -- Refusal by competent patients -- Standards for decisions -- Surrogate decision-making -- Persistent disagreements -- Confusing ethical distinctions -- Ethics committees, consultations -- Do not attempt resuscitation orders -- Tube and intravenous feedings -- Physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia -- The persistent vegetative state -- Determination of death -- Legal rulings on life-sustaining interventions -- Overview doctor-patient relationship -- Refusal to care for patients -- Gifts from patients to physicians -- Sexual contact with patients -- Secret information about patients -- Clinical research -- Bedside rationing -- Incentives to increase services -- Incentives to decrease services -- Gifts from drug companies -- Disclosing mistakes -- Impaired colleagues -- Ethical dilemmas trainees -- Ethical issues in pediatrics -- Ethical issues in surgery -- Ethical issues in obstetrics-gynecology -- Ethical issues in psychiatry -- Organ transplantation -- Testing for genetic conditions -- Public health emergencies.