Autonomy and authority in medical futility
Zhengyu Jiang
Lu Yang
Pinhao Guo
Shanshan Gong
摘要：Medical futility has been proposed for many years to define the procedure that simply prolongs the suffering of patients but heals nothing[1].To deal with the decision procedure for treatment,two ideas arise:patients' autonomy and doctors' authority.Widely recognized in 1960s,patients' autonomy respected patients' willingness over treatment,requiring specific consent for treatment and right to choose during medical procedure.Another idea for futility is doctors' authority,explained from the paternalistic perspective as well[2].Modern medicine,which is based on patients' autonomy and doctors' authority,should attain a balance in between.
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论文发表日期：2014-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）