PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bamford, P N
TI  - Medical mismanagement or public vacillation?
AID  - 10.1136/jme.7.4.179
DP  - 1981 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 179--181
VI  - 7
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/7/4/179.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/7/4/179.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1981 Dec 01; 7
AB  - Ian Kennedy extols the virtues of self-determination by patients: they should make their own decisions about medical treatment after being given advice by their doctors; for doctors to make such decisions on their patients' behalf is authoritarian and unacceptable (I). I present a case where, despite thorough consultation and counselling, the decisions made by the patient and supported by her doctors were found to be consistently inappropriate to her changing lifestyle.