Healthcare Ethics Committees and The Law  

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Latham, Stephen

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees, page 17-24.
Topik: Federal Law; State Law; “Non-legal” Ethics Standards
Fulltext: Healthcare Ethics Committees and The Law.pdf (158.54KB)

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Every healthcare ethics committee (HEC) member needs to know something about the laws that shape and govern the clinical encounter. his is not because the law will oten determine the answers to the questions faced by the committee – far from it! Most of the problems faced by hospital ethics committees aren’t answered by any statute, regulation or judicial holding. But that doesn’t mean that law is irrelevant to the work of ethics committees. In some cases, law may deine the terms in which a particular problem is discussed: “She needs to get his informed consent.” In others, law may rule some possibilities out: “We can’t just turn her out into the street.” In still others, law may authorize or even require the committee’s deliberation: “We can’t avoid making this decision.” In sum, law works mostly not to solve HEC’s problems, but to shape them.

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