Legal aspects in Palliative Care
Physicians who provide palliative care to patients should respect and protect the dignity, rights, and fortitude of these patients, as well as the rights of their families, society, and the larger community. Law and ethics play a vital role in end-of-life care.
Giving patients the best care possible at the end of their life can be a challenging undertaking that requires not only consideration for the patient as a whole but also knowledge of the institutional and community contexts surrounding patient care. Regretfully, a lot of people have false beliefs about what is or is not morally and legally acceptable in this situation.
- Ethical issues in legal palliative care
- Health care law
- Role of legal palliative care