Xiju Zhao

The Duty of Medical Practitioners and CAM/TCM Practitioners to Inform Competent Adult Patients about Alternatives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book pays interest to a small and almost untouched topic: a health practitioner' s duty to inform about alternatives. It covers both orthodox medicine practitioners and CAM practitioners. The topic is explored in a co mparative way, examining the laws of not only common law jurisdictions, such as the USA, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, but also two East Asia jurisdictions ( China and Japan ) . It uses the collective wisdom of several common law jurisdictions, but also differentiates them. It places the issue of "disclosure of alternatives" in a clear and wider context, making a cogent distinction between diagnosis/treatment and information disclosure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-44028-1
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9783642440281
• ISBN-10: 3642440282
• Artikelnr.: 41650085

Inhaltsangabe

1 INTRODUCTION.
2 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE: A DISTINCTIVE PROFILE.
INTRODUCTION.
THE COMMONWEALTH APPROACH.
THE USA APPROACH.
THE MATERIALITY TEST.
MAKING HEALTH CARE DIVISIBLE.
The Doctor
oriented Standard v. The Patient
oriented Standard.
Medical Judgment v. Layperson Knowledge.
Information v. Materiality.
3 DISCLOSURE OF ALTERNATIVES: IN A WIDE CONTEXT.
INTRODUCTION.
FROM DISCLOSURE OF RISKS TO DISCLOSURE OF ALTERNATIVES.
DISCLOSURE OF ALTERNATIVES: CONVENTIONAL WISDOM.
GENERAL DISTINCTION: SELECTION, RECOMMENDATION, PERFORMANCE V. DISCLOSURE.
FURTHER DISTINCTION: SELECTION
RECOMMENDATION
PERFORMANCE
DISCLOSURE.
Performance.
Selection.
Recommendation.
Disclosure and Doctors' Preferences.
CONCLUSION: A NEW MODEL.
4 FILTERS AND CIRCUMSTANCES.
INTRODUCTION.
FILTERS.
Medical Knowledge.
The Particular Patient's Condition.
"Material" Information.
Information "Making a Difference".
CIRCUMSTANCES.
"Elective" Procedures.
"Experimental" Procedures.
 Patients' Inquiry.
CONCLUSION.
5 CATEGORISATION OF ALTERNATIVES.
INTRODUCTION.
CONVENTIONAL AND EMERGING TREATMENT OPTIONS.
LEGALLY UNAVAILABLE ALTERNATIVES.
FINANCIALLY UNAVAILABLE ALTERNATIVES.
GEOGRAPHICALLY UNAVAILABLE ALTERNATIVES.
ALTERNATIVE PROVIDER.
The USA Approach.
The Canadian Approach.
The Australian Law.
CAM ALTERNATIVES.
DOING NOTHING
AN OPTION?.
CONCLUSION.
6 EMERGING TREATMENT OPTIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
"A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT" IN THE CONTEXT OF SELECTION OF TREATMENT OPTIONS.
ADOPTION OF EMERGING TREATMENT OPTIONS.
According Priority to Conventional Treatments.
Leeway in Adopting Emerging Treatment Options.
DISCLOSURE OF EMERGING TREATMENT OPTIONS.
Only More Promising Alternatives?.
Only More Mature Alternatives?.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION.
7 FINANCIALLY UNAVAILABLE TREATMENT OPTIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
PROVISION OF TREATMENTS: RESOURCE
CONSCIOUS?.
DISCLOSURE OF TREATMENT OPTIONS: RESOURCE
BLIND?.
Disutility?.
A Sensitive and Reactive Approach?.
Undermining Rationing?.
Time Resource.
CONCLUSION.
8 CAM AND ALTERNATIVES.
8.1 INTRODUCTION.
ORTHODOX MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS AND CAM.
Adoption of CAM.
Disclosure of CAM.
DUAL PRACTITIONERS.
Delivering CAMs.
Disclosure of Alternatives.
CAM PRACTITIONERS.
The Context of Diagnosis and Treatment: The "Same School" Rule?.
The Context of Information Disclosure: A Duty to Inform about Conventional Medicine Alternatives?.
A Canadian Case: A CAM Practitioner and the Duty of Care.
CONCLUSION.
9 NEW ZEALAND CONTEXT AND BEYOND.
INTRODUCTION.
THE ENGLISH MODEL.
The Less Demanding Common Law.
The More Demanding Professional Regulation.
Law or Professional Regulation?.
THE AUSTRALIAN MODEL.
The Modestly Demanding Common Law and Legislation.
The More Demanding Professional Regulation.
THE CANADIAN MODEL.
The More Stringent Common Law.
The Similarly Stringent Legislation and Professional Regulation.
COMMON LAW, PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, LEGISLATION?.
NEW ZEALAND LAW AND ITS CODE OF PATIENTS' RIGHTS.
The Unique "Code".
Scope or Standard of Information Disclosure.
A "Materiality" Test?.
A Two
pronged Test?.
Disclosure of Options/Alternatives.
Options: "Available"?.
A Doctor's Recommendation and Preferences.
Minority Treatment Options.
Innovative Treatment Options.
The Opening Words of Right 6 (1) and Clause 3.
CAM, CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE AND DISCLOSURE OF ALTERNATIVES.
CAM Practitioners.
Dual Practitioners.
Conventional Medicine Practitioners.
Impression: Still Orthodoxy
reinforcing?.
CONCLUSION: THE CODE APPROACH AND THE TORT APPROACH.
10 CHINESE CONTEXT.
INTRODUCTION.
LEGAL CONTEXT.
Chinese Medical Law.
Chinese Law of Liability for Medical Damage.
Chinese Informed Consent Law and the Duty to Disclose Alternatives.
Conclusion and Suggestion.
MEDICAL CONTEXT.
Chinese Health Care.
Traditional Chinese Medicine v. "Western" Medicine.
Dual and Integrative Medicine.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE AND THE LAW.
Integrative or Alternative Legal Framework?.
TCM Practitioners and Informed Consent Law.
Western Medicine, Chinese Medicine and Disclosure of Alternatives.
CONCLUSION.
11 CONCLUSION