Ethics and pain management: Respecting patient wishes

摘要: The fear of pain is common among cancer patients. management can raise troubling ethical issues for medicine and society. Medical caregivers have an duty to provide therapy that benefits patients by achieving one or more goals at all points. Pain symptom relief may be the only achievable goal when curative has failed. Relief restore decision-making capacity enhance patient's right self-determination. underpinning principles extensions these in medical context control with varying care, including dying patients, explored.