Assume that appropriate information had been provided to the patient. The health care providers are certain that the best choice for therapy is A, while the patient wants to choose another therapy, B, which has been shown to be ineffective. Who makes the decision and why? Can the patient make the decision to have ineffective therapy? Defend your answer
Certainly, the patient can choose to be wrong. However, if the choice is to be harmful to the patient, the practitioner's professional autonomy would be such that one could withdraw from the case. There would be no professional duty to harm the patient. Considerations regarding getting the patient other sources of health care would need to be considered so that the patient is not abandoned.
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