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The general discussion, caselaw, and practical guidance in Patient Care Decision Making: A Legal Guide for Providers, now in a new softbound format, combine to help your clients achieve a proper balance between their responsibilities to a patient and the patient's individual rights. Covering both procedural and substantive aspects of the law, the author addresses key patient care issues such as:
• Consensual treatment
• Forced treatment of the mentally ill
• The right to refuse treatment
• Brain death
• Autopsies
• Anatomical gifts
• Privacy
• Confidentiality