The "Difficult" Patient Reconceived: An Expanded Moral Mandate for Clinical Ethics

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2-7

  Fiester, Autumn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ethics committees; mental illness; professional patient relationship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHICS CONSULTATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FRUSTRATION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NEGOTIATING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84861618272     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2012.665135     Document Type: Article

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