AMA (Virt Mentor) Medicine and Society: "Therapeutic privilege is an exemption from informed consent guidelines and is, most would say, a frank exercise of paternalism. The AMA Code of Medical Ethics says that physicians may withhold information about a patient"
The question arises, however, under what circumstances can this exemption be invoked? Should the decision to use the "therapeutic privilege" be made by the individual physician or is it so important that other physicians or an ethics committee should evaluate and be party to the decision? Read the article by Matthew K. Wynia, MD and then post your comments here.
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