Jeremy Jacobs: The Political Misuse of ‘Patient Autonomy’ in Modern Law
Jeremy Jacobs, Medical Director at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, shared a post on LinkedIn about a recent article he and his colleagues co – authored, adding:
“Thankful for the opportunity to discuss how politicians are increasingly invoking ‘patient autonomy’ as a means to pass laws that mandate physicians and healthcare professionals provide treatment options that are not evidence-based and are known to increase harm.
The irony is that the same politicians who implore that patients should be able to receive directed blood donations as an ‘inviolable right’ to decide what happens with their body are the same individuals who are passing laws criminalizing these same patients for seeking reproductive healthcare.”
Title: Legislating Medicine – Directed Donation and the Politics of Patient Choice
Authors: Jeremy W. Jacobs, Nikki B. Zite, Miriam Brown, Sarah S. Osmundson, Deva Sharma
Read the Full Article on NEJM
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