The Ethics of Surgical Practice
Cases, Dilemmas, and Resolutions
Published on 23. June 2008
357 pages
978-0-19-971755-2 (ISBN)
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Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery. This volume provides a collection of clinical case studies representing a wide range of the ethical issues surgeons confront today. It is an excellent text for teaching surgical ethics to surgical residents and medical students and a fascinating read for practicing surgeons. It is intended to engage the reader into participating in evidence-based ethical conflicts. The authors escort us through 71 brief, realistic, and ethically complex problems, offering a series of five possible resolutions to each and guiding us through the relative benefits and weaknesses of the options until a best ethical choice is defended. The volume includes sections on Consent and Disclosure, Self-Regulation, Research and Innovation, Conflicts of Interest, Business Dealings, and End of Life Issues, each with a brief introduction by the authors.
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James W. Jones | Laurence B. McCullough | Bruce W. Richman
The Ethics of Surgical Practice
Cases, Dilemmas, and Resolutions
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The Ethics of Surgical Practice
Cases, Dilemmas, and Resolutions
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07/2008
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: A Primer on Surgical Ethics
- 2 Informed Consent and Disclosure
- Case 1 Painted Into a Corner: Unexpected Complications in Treating a Jehovah's Witness
- Case 2 A Patient Refuses Consent for Life-Saving Surgery
- Case 3 Consent for an Intraoperative Video Recording
- Case 4 Disclosure of Intraoperative Error
- Case 5 The Public's Right to Know? Surgical Treatment of Public Figures
- Case 6 Religiously Based Emergency Treatment Refusal
- Case 7 Consent for Residents to Perform Surgery
- Case 8 The Shifting Sands of Senility: Canceled Consent
- Case 9 A Surgeon's Obligation to a Jehovah's Witness Child
- Case 10 Are Ethics Practical When Externals Impact Your Clinical Judgment?
- 3 Professional Self-Regulation
- Case 11 What To Tell Patients Harmed By Other Physicians
- Case 12 The Military Physician's Ethical Response to Evidence of Torture
- Case 13 Who Should Protect the Public Against Bad Doctors?
- Case 14 Disagreements Between Attending and Consultant Physicians
- Case 15 Turf Wars: The Ethics of Professional Territorialism
- Case 16 Eyewitness to Incompetent Surgery
- Case 17 Ethics of Operative Scheduling: Balancing Multiple Fiduciary Responsibilities
- Case 18 Do Unto Others: Justice in Surgical Education
- Case 19 The Surgeon's Obligations to the Noncompliant Patient
- Case 20 The Ethics of Serving as a Plaintiff's Expert Medical Witness
- Case 21 Standard of Care: What Does It Really Mean?
- 4 Innovation and Research
- Case 22 When does Conventional Surgical Therapy Become Research?
- Case 23 A Surgeon's Obligations When Performing New Procedures
- Case 24 The Ethics of Innovative Surgical Approaches for Well-Established Procedures
- Case 25 Using Surgical Innovation to Treat Rare Diseases
- Case 26 Ethics of Introducing New Operating Room Technology
- Case 27 Patenting Surgical Procedures
- Case 28 Sham Surgery in Research
- Case 29 Stem Cell Research: Obligations When Religious Values Conflict with Professional Values
- Case 30 Ethics of Odd Ideas, Good Science, and Academic Freedom
- Case 31 The Ethics of By-Lines: Would the Real Authors Please Stand Up?
- Case 32 When the Data Won't Get You There: The Ethics of Scientific Error, and Worse
- 5 Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment
- Case 33 Intentional Overtreatment: The Unmentionable Conflict of Interest
- Case 34 Patient Responsibilities, Family Responsibilities
- Case 35 Nonfinancial Conflicts of Interest
- Case 36 Ethics of Overscheduling: When Enough Becomes Too Much
- Case 37 An Impaired Surgeon and Supervisory Responsibilities
- Case 38 Surgeon-Industry Relationships: Ethically Responsible Management of Conflicts of Interest
- Case 39 Relationship Funding of Professional Foundations: Just a New Black Sheep?
- Case 40 When to Refer to Another Surgeon
- Case 41 HIV Infection, Professional Responsibility, and Self-Interest
- Case 42 Ethics of Combining Romance with Medical Practice
- Case 43 Ethics of Operating on a Family Member
- 6 The Ethics of Surgery as a Business
- Case 44 Show Me the Money: The Ethics of Physicians' Income
- Case 45 Ethics of Institutional Marketing: The Role of Physicians
- Case 46 Ethics of Boutique Medical Practice
- Case 47 Ethics and Commercial Insurance
- Case 48 Ethics of Clinical Pathways and Cost Control
- Case 49 Ethics of Professional Courtesy
- Case 50 Ethics of Administrative Credentialing
- Case 51 Ethics of the New Economic Credentialing: Conflicted Leadership Roles
- Case 52 Whodunit? Ghost Surgery and Ethical Billing
- Case 53 Other People's Money: Ethics, Finances, and Bad Outcomes
- Case 54 Consultation or Corruption? The Ethics of Signing on to the Medical-Industrial Complex
- 7 Challenges to Medical Professionalism: Assaults from Within and Without
- Case 55 Going Public with Amazing Cases: Fiat or Fiasco?
- Case 56 Ethics of Unprofessional Behavior That Disrupts: Crossing the Line
- Case 57 My Brother's Keeper: The Ethics of Uncompensated Care for Illegal Immigrants
- Case 58 From Premiums to Payouts: Who's Behind the Professional Liability Crisis, Anyway?
- Case 59 A Helping Hand Bitten: An Ethical Response to Medical Malpractice Suits
- Case 60 Case-Load Outcome Credentialing: Taking from the Have-Nots
- Case 61 Fiduciary Economization: Your Wealth or Your Health
- Case 62 What to Do When a Patient's International Medical Care Goes South
- 8 End-of-Life Issues
- Case 63 Futility and Surgical Intervention
- Case 64 Complying with Advance Directives in the Operating Room
- Case 65 Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in a Death Row Inmate
- Case 66 Telling the Truth About Terminal Diseases
- Case 67 Arsenic and Old Lace: End-of-Life Care in the Postoperative Period
- Case 68 Training on Newly Deceased Patients
- Case 69 Advanced Age, Dementia, and an Abdominal Aneurysm: Intervene?
- Case 70 Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Low-Burden Care
- Case 71 Physician-Assisted Suicide: Has It Come of Age?
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