title: Sociocultural differences, medicolegal implications, and risk management issues in the medical care of an elderly Chinese woman.
abstract: Large urban hospitals and their physicians confronted with unanticipated admissions involving international patients may often experience cross-cultural conflicts arising in the course of a patient's medical care. Conflicts of this nature can place the healthcare team, the patient, and the family at odds due to their respective traditions and the laws, regulations, and guidelines upheld and followed in the United States. The following is a complicated case illustrating a variety of legal, ethical, and clinical issues for Patient XX, an international patient emergently presenting to a large US medical health system for diagnosis and treatment.
authors.affiliation: South Carolina Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: O'Donnell
authors.forename: Brett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Worly
authors.forename: Anique
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Forrester
authors.forename: Vinay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vajjhala
authors.forename: Madeleine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Becker
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D028701:Patient Rights; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States