Acute ethics: risk assessment and the Doctrine of Double Effect in a referral to on-call urology.

The Doctrine of Double Effect has been described as often used in medicine and surgery but is seldom described outside the palliative medicine context. This paper presents a possible clinically focussed illustration of the doctrine of double effect used in an acute urological setting. The authors de...

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Main Authors: Papanikitas, A, Papanikitas, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009