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Ethical Issues In Neurology
2nd ed, by James L. Bernat, MD, 508 pp, Boston, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002.
Arch Neurol. 2003;60:138.
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Ethical issues are a basic aspect of medicine because this profession
. . . is fundamentally a moral enterprise, and physicians have a fiduciary duty to always do the right actions by their patients and thus to be virtuous practitioners. The virtues physicians should cultivate include trust, compassion, sound judgment, justice, fortitude, temperance, integrity and self-effacement.
This is how James L. Bernat describes the ethical challenge of practicing medicine in Ethical Issues in Neurology.
He makes it clear that ethical issues have a special prominence in the practice of neurology because the brain plays the fundamental role in who we are, how we communicate, and how we behave. The first section of this text presents the theory and practice of clinical ethics and reviews the parallel evolution of ethics, philosophy, law, and medicine over many centuries. This is followed by a section on death and dying, including refusal of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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