What Health Care Providers Know: A Taxonomy of Clinical Disagreements

Hastings Center Report 41 (5):27-36 (2011)
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Abstract

When, if ever, can healthcare provider's lay claim to knowing what is best for their patients? In this paper, I offer a taxonomy of clinical disagreements. The taxonomy, I argue, reveals that healthcare providers often can lay claim to knowing what is best for their patients, but that oftentimes, they cannot do so *as* healthcare providers.

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