Journal of Health & Medical Informatics

Frank A Chervenak

Publications

• Review Article
  The Professional Responsibility Model of Ethics in Perinatal Medicine
  Author(s): Frank A Chervenak and Laurence B McCulloughFrank A Chervenak and Laurence B McCullough
  
  Objective: To describe the professional responsibility model of ethics in perinatal medicine, based on the fetus and pregnant woman as patients, to guide the deliberative practice of perinatal medicine. Methods: We describe secular medical ethics and its two fundamental principles, beneficence and respect for autonomy. We articulate the ethical concept of the fetus as a patient on the basis of the ethical principle of beneficence. Results: In the deliberative practice of perinatal medicine guided by the professional responsibility model, the perinatologist should always identify and balance beneficence-based obligations to the fetal patient and beneficence-based and autonomy-based obligations to the pregnant patient. Directive counseling is appropriate when the fetus is a patient. Non-directive counseling is appropriate when the fetus is not a patient. Conclusion: Counseling pregnant .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7420.S11-003

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