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01.01.2012 | Book Review
Biomedical ethics, 7th edition David DeGrazia, Thomas A. Mappes, Jeffrey Brand-Ballard: 2010, Softcover, 732pp, ISBN-9780073407456 £171.15 McGraw-Hill Incorporated
verfasst von:
Barry R. Masters
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Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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Excerpt
Physicians in their role as healers have a unique relationship with respect to their patients; trust in the patient’s physician is the basis of the physician–patient relationship. No one chooses to be a patient. Each physician must make the appropriate decisions that balance the needs of the patient with the societal laws and professional codes of conduct, and the sometimes conflicting self self-interests of the physician. Sometimes the physician’s interests supersede the interests of the patient. A particularly egregious example, but also one that gives us deep insights on the failure of institutional ethical review boards to adequately prevent aberrations of normative behavior of physicians and also to hold the perpetrators accountable, is the book Waking Up Blind,Lawsuits over Eye Surgery by Tom Harbin, MD. …