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Article: Mediation offers strategy for ethical conflicts.
- Article from:
- Medical Ethics Advisor
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Mediation offers strategy for ethical conflicts
Process stimulates discussions and levels the playing field
Mediation long has been known as an alternative way of resolving civil legal disputes. But as the following case study illustrates, it is emerging as a new way to help resolve conflicts in medical settings.
Mr. D is an 82-year-old patient who has been admitted to a hospitals cardiac care unit and has recently undergone quadruple bypass surgery to open four occluded blood vessels. Due to uncontrolled diabetes, advanced age, and other health factors, he was a poor candidate for surgery. However, surgery was his only chance for survival.
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