Items for "patient autonomy"

Unethical bunglers or humane professionals? Discussions in the media of end-of-life treatment decisions

We studied media discussions of end-of-life decision making to find out how the doctor–patient relationship is portrayed and what types of positions the media takes and how it is represented by other discussion participants in this context...

Keywords: consumerism, patient autonomy, end-of-life decisions, doctorpatient relationship, media