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Oct 15, 2024 · A nurse is incorrectly viewed as a subordinate to a doctor, and “doctor” has incorrectly been tied to “physician.” Enter the 21st century: physical therapists hold a doctorate and can thus be called “doctor,” and a dietitian is a provider and can have a doctorate as well.
Historically, “incapacity” was considered primarily a clinical finding, and “incompetency” was considered a legal finding. That distinction, at least in terminology, is no longer firmly recognized; most state laws now use “incapacity” rather than “incompetency,” although the terms are frequently used interchangeably (1).
- Thaddeus Mason Pope
For patients with mental illnesses that can interfere with their insight into their health or with their decision making, physicians have obligations to assess their capacity in order to evaluate their ability to make a particular health care decision at a particular point in time.
- Danielle Hahn Chaet
- 2016
Unless it was exceptionally serious, a single clinical incident would not indicate a general lack of competence on the part of a nurse, midwife or nursing associate. We recognise that nurses, midwives and nursing associates sometimes make mistakes or errors of judgement.
Clinical incapacity to make health care decisions is the medical judgment of a qualified doctor or other health care professional who determines a person is unable to do the following: Understand his or her medical condition or the significant benefits and harms of proposed treatment and its alternatives
- Thaddeus Mason Pope
Jun 30, 2014 · Today, doctors in the United States are ethically required to report an incompetent colleague. Iatrogenic injury—injury caused unintentionally by medical treatment—breaks the oldest and most famous rule of medical ethics: primum non nocere , or above all, do no harm.
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Abstract. One of the most difficult situations facing physicians involves decision making by substitute decision makers for patients who have never been competent. This paper begins with a brief examination of the ethics of substitute decision making for previously competent patients.
