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  • Title: Ethics and family practice: some modern dilemmas.
    Author: Dunn EV.
    Journal: Can Fam Physician; 1990 Oct; 36():1785-7. PubMed ID: 11651132.
    Abstract:
    Ethical dilemmas in family practice have increased in frequency and complexity as both the potential benefit and the potential harm of medical treatments have increased. All physicians must be aware of moral issues relating to medicine. Family physicians commonly face ethical problems concerning the patient with diminished autonomy; the right to refuse treatment; allocation of resources; informed consent; surrogate consent (for children, for the incompetent, and for those with diminished autonomy); and the appropriate level of aggressiveness in treatment.
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