A Doctor’s First, and Last, Responsibility is to Care Comment on “Denial of Treatment to Obese Patients—the Wrong Policy on Personal Responsibility for Health”
The obesity epidemic raises important and complex issues for clinicians and policy-makers, such as what clinical and public health measures will be most effective and most ethically-sound. While Nir Eyal’s analysis of these issues is very helpful and while he correctly concludes that “conditioning t...
Main Author: | Lachlan Forrow |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences
2013-01-01
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Series: | International Journal of Health Policy and Management |
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Online Access: | http://ijhpm.com/?_action=showPDF&article=2780&_ob=195e7b18585ce12c50eb68e1203180fd&fileName=full_text.pdf. |
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