Ethical Obligation of Surgeons to Noncompliant Patients: Can a Surgeon Refuse to Operate on an Intravenous Drug-Abusing Patient With Recurrent Aortic Valve Prosthesis Infection?

J. Michael DiMaio; Tomas A. Salerno; Ron Bernstein; Katia Araujo; Marco Ricci; Robert M. Sade

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.088

Ethical Obligation of Surgeons to Noncompliant Patients: Can a Surgeon Refuse to Operate on an Intravenous Drug-Abusing Patient With Recurrent Aortic Valve Prosthesis Infection?

J. Michael DiMaio, Tomas A. Salerno, Ron Bernstein, Katia Araujo, Marco Ricci, Robert M. Sade

Cardio Thoracic Surgery

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Volume	88
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.088
State	Published - Jul 2009

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Surgery
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Ethical Obligation of Surgeons to Noncompliant Patients: Can a Surgeon Refuse to Operate on an Intravenous Drug-Abusing Patient With Recurrent Aortic Valve Prosthesis Infection? / DiMaio, J. Michael; Salerno, Tomas A.; Bernstein, Ron et al.
In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 88, No. 1, 07.2009, p. 1-8.

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