Patient's Interest First The Nature of Medical Ethics and the Dilemma of a Good Doctor

As major changes in medical practice escalates in the 21st Century, in part brought about by technology and rising health costs, ethical problems will increasingly become the dilemma of good doctors and lead to a possible revolution in medical thinking and ethics. In this book, the thoughts, essays and lectures on medical ethics by a number of leading Singapore doctors including the author, a world renowned ophthalmologist, are shared in an attempt to stimulate readers to think about the medical changes of the future and bring across the essential principle that the interests of patients must always be first. Among the topics addressed are 'Some Controversies of Medical Ethics', 'The Right to Inform', 'Limits to Freedom and Ethics in Medicine: the Patient or the State?', 'Quality of Life and the Right to Live'.Lim, Arthur M. is the author of 'Patient's Interest First The Nature of Medical Ethics and the Dilemma of a Good Doctor' with ISBN 9789810235482 and ISBN 9810235488.