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Views of United States physicians and members of the American Medical Association House of Delegates on physician-assisted suicideS N Whitney
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77005, USA
J Gen Intern Med 16:290-6. 2001..To ascertain the views of physicians and physician leaders toward the legalization of physician-assisted suicide...- A new model of medical decisions: exploring the limits of shared decision makingSimon N Whitney
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Med Decis Making 23:275-80. 2003..2) Most minor decisions that have high certainty are expected to be made by physicians. 3) Major decisions that have high certainty are likely to cause serious conflict when patients and physicians disagree... - A typology of shared decision making, informed consent, and simple consentSimon N Whitney
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston 77098, USA
Ann Intern Med 140:54-9. 2004..In the continuing effort to provide patients with appropriate decisional authority over their own medical choices, shared decision making, informed consent, and simple consent each has a distinct role to play... - Association of spirituality and sobriety during a behavioral spirituality intervention for Twelve Step (TS) recoveryAnthony E Brown
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77098, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 33:611-7. 2007..These findings encourage a controlled trial to determine if this work has efficacy for practitioners in substance abuse treatment... - Physicians' silent decisions: because patient autonomy does not always come firstSimon N Whitney
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77098 3926, USA
Am J Bioeth 7:33-8. 2007..However, if a test or treatment is unlikely to yield a net benefit, disclosure and discussion are at times unnecessary. Appropriate silent decisions are ethically justified by such considerations as patient benefit or economy of time... - Responses to open peer commentaries on "Physicians' silent decisions: because patient autonomy doesn't always come first"Simon N Whitney
Am J Bioeth 7:W1-3. 2007 - The physician's role in the assessment and treatment of spiritual distress at the end of lifeAnthony E Brown
Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 3701 Kirby Dr, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77098, USA
Palliat Support Care 4:81-6. 2006..Although physicians assume a clearly defined role in approaching the physical aspects of terminal illness, the responsibility for helping their patients' spiritual adaptation is also important... - Alcohol recovery and spirituality: strangers, friends, or partners?Anthony E Brown
Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 3701 Kirby Drive, Suite 600, Houston, Texas 77098, USA
South Med J 99:654-7. 2006..Most communities offer a variety of approaches, so clinicians who are aware of these differences are in a good position to help patients make intelligent choices among the competing recovery philosophies... - Decision making in pediatric oncology: who should take the lead? The decisional priority in pediatric oncology modelSimon N Whitney
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77098, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:160-5. 2006..In this circumstance, the family, with its deeper understanding of the child's nature and preferences, is better positioned to take the lead... - Missed expectations? Physicians' views of patients' participation in medical decision-makingAmy L McGuire
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77098, USA
Med Care 43:466-70. 2005..A one-dimensional model of shared decision-making based solely on the principle of autonomy fails to account for variability in how physicians allocate decisional priority and is therefore ethically inadequate... - Consent: informed, simple, implied and presumedLaurence B McCullough
Baylor College of Medicine
Am J Bioeth 7:49-50; discussion W3-4. 2007 - Principal investigator views of the IRB systemSimon N Whitney
Department of Family, Community Medicine, Houston Center for Education, Research on Therapeutics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77098 3926, USA
Int J Med Sci 5:68-72. 2008..Significant concern was expressed about the cost, inefficiency, and irrationality of IRB review. The IRB system works well for some researchers, but our results indicate that other investigators feel the costs outweigh the benefits... - Beyond breaking bad news: the roles of hope and hopefulnessSimon N Whitney
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77098 3926, USA
Cancer 113:442-5. 2008..Hope is important to patients, yet physicians are sometimes unsure how to promote hope in the face of life-threatening illness...