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Open Peer Commentaries

Against Multiplying Clinical Ethics Standards without Necessity: The Case for Parsimony in Evaluating Decision-making Capacity

 
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Three Kinds of Decision-Making Capacity for Refusing Medical Interventions
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Capacities to Refuse Treatment: A Reply

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1 Commentators have long warned that “snowing” patients with insignificant details about their treatment can confuse them and interfere with their ability to make a meaningful choice. See, for example, Richard Cabot’s (Citation1903) classic article “The use of truth and falsehood in medicine.”

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