New York’s Medical Aid in Dying is often framed as compassion guided by medical expertise. But is the legislation prescribing ...

Last month, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a bill lawmakers passed called “Deb’s Law” that enables terminally ill patients to request a prescription from their doctor to end their ...

Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that fact.” He provided no ...

Respecting autonomy in anorexia must not lead to abandonment, as supporting choice and preserving life can and should coexist ...

Insurance exchanges encourage patient autonomy Too often, patients rely on the provider to 'fix them,' signifying an unwillingness to be participants in their own care. The recently launched Health ...

Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 24, No. 6 (Dec., 1998), pp. 394-400 (7 pages) Background—Patient autonomy has gradually replaced physician paternalism as an ethical ideal. However, in a medical ...

A new patient-reported outcomes tool is helping to shift the way end-of-life and depression-related conversations are occurring between patients with multiple myeloma and their health care teams. A ...

Joyce O'Shaughnessy, MD, reflects on the important principle of patient autonomy and how, as a younger clinician, she encountered a patient with breast cancer who refused early intervention with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among high-risk patients, discussion of do-not-resuscitate orders should take place prior to hospitalization, as ...

May is the month most American medical students finally see four years of grueling work bear fruit. Most U.S. medical schools hold commencement exercises in May, conferring "doctor of medicine" ...

Patient autonomy is one of the four pillars of modern medical ethics. In some cases, however, its value is not absolute and autonomy may be overridden by sufficiently important matters of public ...