Ethical decision making by British general practitioners.
General practitioners in England and Wales were sent a questionnaire asking how they would handle the ethical problems posed by six case vignettes and their reasons for their decisions. The ethical problems included: how much information to divulge to patients, how extensively a physician should become involved in the lifestyles of patients and how to deal with a possible family problem. The varying patterns of response to the six cases suggested that ethical issues are resolved in a case-by-case, not a theoretical, basis.
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D026686:Beneficence; D026688:Bioethical Issues; D003657:Decision Making; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010821:Physicians, Family; D006113:United Kingdom