Commentary: What we have here, is a failure to communicate

Howard Brody

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Abstract

The physician in Erde's clinical case study performed poorly in a number of aspects of informed consent and good physician-patient communication. However, the patient also failed to perform some of his own duties to participate in effective communication and so shares at least some responsibility for the bad outcome.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)28-33
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Medicine and Philosophy
Volume24
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1999
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Abandonment
  • Communication
  • Informed consent
  • Patients' duties

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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