A young man presents to your local clinic in a leprosy endemic country with a small patch of discoloured skin on his right forearm. The diagnosis is clear. You start to explain, but the man stops you: he doesn't want to hear more, just requests the medicine. But you are 'in conflict', and not just by the desire to discuss the situation more fully with your patient before prescribing a drug. The local public health team, of which you are a part, is currently evaluating the impact on the community's health of a patient education programme which necessitates informing all new leprosy cases of their diagnosis. What should you do? And can bio-ethics help?
BT - Leprosy review C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11715269?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 2001 Sep DO - 10.5935/0305-7518.20010030 IS - 3 J2 - Lepr Rev LA - eng N2 -A young man presents to your local clinic in a leprosy endemic country with a small patch of discoloured skin on his right forearm. The diagnosis is clear. You start to explain, but the man stops you: he doesn't want to hear more, just requests the medicine. But you are 'in conflict', and not just by the desire to discuss the situation more fully with your patient before prescribing a drug. The local public health team, of which you are a part, is currently evaluating the impact on the community's health of a patient education programme which necessitates informing all new leprosy cases of their diagnosis. What should you do? And can bio-ethics help?
PY - 2001 SP - 246 EP - 9 T2 - Leprosy review TI - Needing to know? Ethical dilemmas in leprosy treatment and control. UR - http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/2001/v72n3/pdf/v72n3a02.pdf VL - 72 SN - 0305-7518 ER -