When parents demand treatment.
In striving to provide quality medical care to the child and in serving as an educator and counselor to the family, the pediatrician can pursue several different decision making paths. The chosen path will depend on the pediatrician's medical knowledge and skill, but will also be influenced significantly by views of moral responsibility in medicine and attention to the emotional and social factors in the physician-patient encounter.
Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010.
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D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010372:Pediatrics