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Enhancing the doctor-patient relationship: living, dying and use of the living will

M.Sc. (Med. (Bioethics and Health Law)), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2008. / The research aims to establish whether processes around the consideration and execution of the
living will help enhance the doctor-patient relationship. Studies have shown that the living will
is not used frequently, and that the doctor-patient relationship is often deficient. The research
explores the two primary topics – the living will, and the doctor-patient relationship – separately.
Each primary topic is approached via a consideration of the relevant literature, and each is then
analyzed from a theoretical–ethical point of view. A synthesis of these separate investigations is
presented. This synthesis concludes that the living will can help enhance the doctor-patient
relationship.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/7384
Date21 October 2009
CreatorsEtheredge, Harriet
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatapplication/pdf

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