The Doctor-Comatose Patient Relationship and Decision-Making in the Intensive Care Unit
Cognitive science has not yet revealed the mystery of the mind, the principle and the origin of consciousness. We cannot determine with certainty whether a particular being has consciousness and is someone, or lacks it and is something. The doctor at the patient's bedside in the neurological in...
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| Language: | English |
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Palacky University Olomouc
2020
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| Summary: | Cognitive science has not yet revealed the mystery of the mind, the principle and the origin of consciousness. We cannot determine with certainty whether a particular being has consciousness and is someone, or lacks it and is something. The doctor at the patient's bedside in the neurological intensive care unit has to, for example, make decisions even in this situation of uncertainty. In this study, using the example of clinical diagnostics and therapy of quantitative disorders of consciousness, the author examines the extent to which this ignorance represents a barrier preventing the neurologist from taking on the unambiguous decision about the therapy.... |
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| ISSN: | 2571-242X |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5507/rh.2020.002 |