As healthcare systems across Europe deal with an increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment, family doctors are emerging as key players in assessing and supporting patients' decision-making ...

New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act lays out a detailed, step-by-step process for terminally ill patients and the physicians who care for them, with the goal of ensuring decisions are informed, ...

The average adult makes approximately 35,000 decisions daily, from the mundane selection of breakfast cereals to consequential professional judgments. Yet this constant choosing exacts a toll that ...

Surrogate decision makers for a patient are obligated to make health care decisions based on what the patient would have wanted if it is known. During morning clinic, one of your older patients ...

Shared decision making (SDM) is a method of care that is suitable for the care of patients with cancer. It involves a collaborative conversation seeking to respond sensibly to the problematic ...