Why Even a Liberal Can Justify Limited Paternalistic Intervention in Anorexia Nervosa Jennifer Hawkins (bio) Most (but not all) adult persons with anorexia satisfy the existing criteria widely used to assess decision-making capacity, meaning that incapacity typically cannot be justify coercive intervention. After rejecting two other approaches justification, Professor Radden concludes it is mos...

Background & Aims of the Study: Management and leadership style is one of the characteristics that can be of great help to organizations in the competitive world of industries and organizations. On the other hand, individual factors can also play a decisive role in organizational issues. In competition with other organizations, the retention of human resources which is a daunting challenge for ...

Shared decision making is an emerging physician-patient interaction model for clinical practice [1]. Essentially, shared decision making implies that both the physician and the patient contribute to and bear responsibility for the clinical decision to be taken. It offers an alternative for the paternalis-tic model, in which it is the physician who informs the patient and proposes the decision t...

INTRODUCTION Patient non-adherence to treatment is a major problem across most chronic diseases. In COPD and asthma treatments it is a complex issue because people need to make behavioral and lifestyle changes while taking medications. Poor adherence results in increased rates of morbidity and mortality, more frequent hospitalizations, and ultimately higher healthcare expenditures. MATERIALS ...

OBJECTIVE To examine students' attitudes and potential behaviour towards informing a 12-year-old patient of her terminal prognosis in a situation in which her parents do not wish her to be told, as they pass through a modern medical curriculum. DESIGN A cohort study of students entering Glasgow University's new medical curriculum in October 1996. METHODS Students' responses obtained before ...

Objective: To examine students’ attitudes and potential behaviour towards informing a 12-year-old patient of her terminal prognosis in a situation in which her parents do not wish her to be told, as they pass through a modern medical curriculum. Design: A cohort study of students entering Glasgow University’s new medical curriculum in October 1996. Methods: Students’ responses obtained before y...