What we owe patients when fear undermines autonomy: Concretized emotions and the incapacity to deliberate.
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DOI: 10.1111/jep.13864
Abstract: Fear and anxiety can interfere profoundly with a person's ability to deliberate. Patients sometimes face critical medical decisions while subject to intense emotions which involve catastrophic (or wishful) convictions about the future. Medical teams, and… read more here.
Keywords: capacity; decision making; making capacity; concretized emotions ... See more keywords