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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.
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.
1: Introduction: A Primer on Surgical Ethics
2: Informed Consent and Disclosure
1. Painted into a Corner: Unexpected Complications in
Treating a Jehovah's Witness
2. A Patient Refuses Consent for Life-Saving Surgery
3. Consent for an Intraoperative Video Recording
3: Professional Self-Regulation
11. What to Tell Patients Harmed by Other Physicians
12. Eye-Witness to Incompetent Surgery
13. Military Physician's Ethical Response to
Evidence of Torture
4: Innovation and Research
22. When Does Conventional Surgery Become Research?
23. A Surgeon's Obligation When Performing New
Procedures
24. The Ethics of Innovative Approaches for
Well-Established Procedures
5: Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment
33. Intentional Over-Treatment: The Unmentionable
Conflict of Interest
34. Patient Responsibilities, Family Responsibilities
35. Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest
6: The Ethics of Surgery as a Surgery
44. Ethics of Physician's Income 45. Ethics of Personal Advertising
in Surgery
46. Ethics of Institutional Marketing: The Role of Physicians
7: Medical Professionalism Challenges: Assaults from
Within and Without
56. Going Public with Amazing Cases: Fiat or Fiasco?
57. Unprofessional Behavior the Disrupts: Crossing the
Life
58. My Brother's Keeper: Ethics of Uncompensated
Care for Undocumented Immigrants
8: End-of-Life Issues
63. Futility and Surgical Intervention
64. Advanced Age, Dementia, and an Abdominal Aneurysm:
Intervene?
65. Complying with Advance Directives in the OR
66. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in a Death Row Inmate
67. Telling the Truth About Terminal Diseases
68. Arsenic and Old Lace: End of Life Care in the
Post-Operative
69. Training on Newly Deceased Patients
70. Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Low-Burden Care
71. Physician Assisted Suicide: Has it Come of Age?
"This book is a needed addition to the growing body of work focused
on a particular specialty in healthcare. It will be an invaluable
tool for surgeons and those involved in the formation of future
surgeons, not only as technicians, but as those charged with
upholding the virtues which engender the trust of their
patients."--Doody's - a 5 star review!
"Anyone who thinks the field of medical ethics is wishy-washy and
fuzzy will be challenged by this book. The authors take on hard
cases and give hard answers. The case format is perfect for
discussion in academic centers and for residents as part of
professional competency training. The book provides a thoughtful
and interesting case-oriented approach to contemporary medical
ethics in general."--New England Journal of Medicine
"The beauty of this book is that it speaks in the language of
surgeons as well as ethicists. The level of clinical detail in the
cases allows each to hit the resident or practicing surgeon very
close to him. The ethical analysis, while brief, shows a broad
familiarity with the ethics literature. Furthermore, there are many
references to episodes in surgical history, grounding the discourse
in a historical context--a strategy endearing to the heart of
every
surgeon....This collection of cases and analyses goes a long way in
laying the foundation for a generation of surgeons who must
cultivate the virtues necessary to care for the surgical
patient."--Ethics
and Medicine
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