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Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

Andrew Thurman
Affiliation:
Andrew E. Thurman, J.D., M.P.H., is a lawyer who has represented nonprofit healthcare institutions for more than twenty years. He is currently the Chief In-House Counsel for the Allegheny University Hospitals system in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

In this case, when the ethics committee is asked “What is our duty to this patient?” the questions that should be addressed are “What is whose duty to the patient, and whose duty has primacy?”

Type
ETHICS COMMITTEES AT WORK
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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