Johnna Wellesley

Dec 2, 2024 | theconversation.com | Dominic Wilkinson |Bryanna Moore |Johnna Wellesley

There is a clear ethical and legal principle that adults have a right to make decisions about their health. This is sometimes called the principle of patient autonomy. That is, of course, why doctors need patients’ consent before providing the treatment they recommend. But we only really notice the ethical significance of this principle when patients make choices that go against medical advice and that doctors think are unwise or even dangerous.

Nov 21, 2024 | theconversation.com | Dominic Wilkinson |Bryanna Moore |Johnna Wellesley

There is a clear ethical and legal principle that adults have a right to make decisions about their health. This is sometimes called the principle of patient autonomy. That is, of course, why doctors need patients’ consent before providing the treatment they recommend. But we only really notice the ethical significance of this principle when patients make choices that go against medical advice and that doctors think are unwise or even dangerous.

Nov 14, 2024 | jme.bmj.com | Johnna Wellesley |Dominic Wilkinson |Bryanna Moore |Newborn Care

Decision MakingEthics- MedicalTerminally IllIntroductionIn the summer of 2022, Sudiksha Thirumalesh, known initially by the Court of Protection as ‘ST’, was admitted to hospital with respiratory arrest resulting from a rare mitochondrial condition as well as a positive COVID-19 infection. She spent the next year being cared for in the intensive care unit.