Enhancing the doctor-patient relationship: living, dying and use of the living will
Date
2009-10-21T10:58:09Z
Authors
Etheredge, Harriet
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Abstract
The research aims to establish whether processes around the consideration and execution of the
living will help enhance the doctor-patient relationship. Studies have shown that the living will
is not used frequently, and that the doctor-patient relationship is often deficient. The research
explores the two primary topics – the living will, and the doctor-patient relationship – separately.
Each primary topic is approached via a consideration of the relevant literature, and each is then
analyzed from a theoretical–ethical point of view. A synthesis of these separate investigations is
presented. This synthesis concludes that the living will can help enhance the doctor-patient
relationship.
Description
M.Sc. (Med. (Bioethics and Health Law)), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2008.
Keywords
doctor-patient relationship, living will