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Jewish medical ethics in the care of the cancer patient

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The care of the patient with cancer requires the development not only of a medical plan, but an ethical plan as well. This plan should integrate the physician's and the patient's perceptions of medical and ethical propriety. Jewish biomedical ethical principles are based on the teaching of the Old Testament and its various interpretations. In this paper, I discuss how these principles can be used to help guide the physician caring for the patient with cancer. Other ethical systems could be applied in a similar fashion.

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  1. Howard University Hospital, 2041 Georgia Ave. NW., 20060, Washington, D.C.

    Elliott Perlin M.D. (Chief of the Hematology Section at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C.)

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Perlin, E. Jewish medical ethics in the care of the cancer patient. J Relig Health 27, 279–284 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01533195

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