Compliance with the wishes of competent patients among future physicians and lawyers: Is paternalism a predictable individual or group-specific trait?

Medical Teacher

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 458-462

  Elger, Bernice S ^a,b   Harding, Timothy W ^b  

^a U Rech d'Enseignement/Bioethique   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LAWYER; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATERNALISM; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERMINAL DISEASE; WELFARE;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; LAWYERS; PATERNALISM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 5744242297     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590410001698829     Document Type: Article

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