title: Bioethics reformation style.
abstract: The Hippocratic model is inadequate because it is too paternalistic, argues Rebecca D. Pentz in her response to Cameron. Instead, we would do well to think of the patient/doctor relationship in Reformation terms, using the pastor/congregation relationship as a model. Rejecting Hippocratic paternalism is not tantamount to an assertion of absolute autonomy; it entails patient responsibility, shared with the physician.
authors: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Pentz
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D002835:Christianity; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006625:Hippocratic Oath; D006801:Humans; D026706:Paternalism / Q000941:ethics; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D035621:Secularism; D026712:Value of Life