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 Our Hands Are Tied: Legal Tensions and Medical Ethics
Marshall Kapp
Auburn House, May 1998
Our Hands Are Tied has been described by CG Chair Philip K. Howard as "an important
and eloquent description of how our legal system has distorted judgments and values
in the medical profession."
Book Description:
As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive
medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of
legalities on medical treatment. Physicians today are apprehensive about the threat
of malpractice suits. Kapp explores the extent to which this fear is justified.
He examines where physicians get their ideas about what the law requires and forbids,
how physicians' perceptions of the law and medicine affect medical care, and whether
these behavior manifestations benefit or hurt a physician's ability to practice
ethically. Kapp then suggests ways medical professionals can resolve tension caused
by conflicting demands and encourage more ethical care.
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