The Journal of contemporary health law and policy
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J Contemp Health Law Policy · Jan 1994
Patient and physician autonomy: conflicting rights and obligations in the physician-patient relationship.
In sum, beneficence and autonomy must be mutually re-enforcing if the patient's good is to be served, if the physician's ability to serve that good is not to be compromised, and if the physician's moral claim to autonomy and the integrity of the whole enterprise of medical ethics are to be respected.