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Clinical pragmatism, ethics consultation, and the elderly patient
1Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
|March 21, 2000
Abstract:
This article describes a process of moral problem solving for medicine termed clinical pragmatism. A structured and disciplined method of addressing ethical problems in medical practice that clinicians will find useful in their daily routines is provided. After outlining the method of clinical pragmatism, the authors illustrate its use in a case involving an older patient refusing medical treatment and conclude with comments on the importance of the process in ethics case consultation.