CPIPRThe problems addressed in hospital clinical ethics consultations are not novel ethical dilemmas but tend to be disagreements between physicians and patients about treatment.
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Reinforcing medical authority: clinical ethics consultation and the resolution of conflicts in treatment decisions - PubMed
Despite substantial efforts in the past 15 years to professionalise the field of clinical ethics consultation, sociologists have not re-examined past hypotheses about the role of such services in medical decision-making and their effect on physician authority. In relation to those hypotheses, we exp …