Refusal of potentially life-saving blood transfusions by Jehovah's Witnesses: Should doctors explain that not all JWs think it's religiously required?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 299-301

  Gillon, R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LIABILITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT RIGHT; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RELIGIOUS GROUP; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RELIGIOUS APPROACH;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRISTIANITY; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0033786815     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.26.5.299     Document Type: Editorial

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