How Do Patients Know?

Overview

Journal Hastings Cent Rep

Specialty Medical Ethics

Date 2007 Oct 31

PMID 17966836

Citations 15

Authors

Rebecca Kukla

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Abstract

The way patients make health care decisions is much more complicated than is often recognized. Patient autonomy allows both that patients will sometimes defer to clinicians and that they should sometimes be active inquirers, ready to question their clinicians and do some independent research. At the same time, patients' active inquiry requires clinicians' support.

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