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About the product Once a patient comes to the surgeon and asks: «Doctor, saw off my leg.» Alas, this is not the beginning of an anecdote, such requests baffle more than one doctor around the world. But what about a patient on a life support apparatus, whose relatives believe that he is alive and do not want to turn it off? Probably, every physician sooner or later faced similar dilemmas, and many patients wondered what awaits them in a particular critical situation when seeking help. The author of this book, Jacob Appel, examines a variety of medical cases from the point of view of ethics and law, and invites readers to reflect with him: which choice is the right one? And the Russian medical lawyer Angelina Romanovskaya comments on the passages concerning our legislation, so that both doctors and their patients know exactly what they have the right to do in their country. Abstract Who should get ventilators in a critical situation, when they are not enough for everyone? Is it worth telling the patient’s relatives about the cause of death if he asked to hide it? Is it acceptable to allow operations that deliberately cripple a person, if he himself so desires? The author reflects on these and many other issues that are difficult from the point of view of ethics and medicine, inviting the readers to think. And not abstractly, but in the context of the laws and morals in which we all live. The text is supplemented with comments by the Russian medical lawyer Angelina Romanovskaya.
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