Report of the American medical association council on ethical and judicial affairs: Withholding information from patients: Rethinking the propriety of "therapeutic privilege"

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 302-306

  Bostick, Nathan A ^a   Sade, Robert ^b   McMahon, John W ^c   Benjamin, Regina ^d  

^a AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Montana Pacific Quality Health Foundation   (United States)

^d Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATERNALISM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; CODES OF ETHICS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PATERNALISM; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TIME FACTORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847060496     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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