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Medical paternalism

Nature

Medical paternalism manifests itself in cases where the doctor withholds information from the patient or where treatment is authorized by a court order, a hospital committee, or the relatives of a patient, or where there is regulation banning a putative therapy.

Broader

Paternalism
Presentable

Narrower

Aggravates

Aggravated by

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Medicine » Medicine
  • Content quality
    Yet to rate
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    Language
    English
    1A4N
    F5397
    DOCID
    11653970
    D7NID
    145307
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024