@Article{Kocańda2017,
journal="Medical Studies/Studia Medyczne",
issn="1899-1874",
volume="33",
number="4",
year="2017",
title="Surgeon’s dilemma: should I save patient’s life at any cost?",
abstract="Every doctor practicing treatment in the field of medicine may be confronted with a serious question: should I save my patient’s life at any cost? If a doctor resigns from emergency procedures, he/she will risk the patient’s death. However, if he/she decides to proceed regardless of a Jehovah’s Witness patient’s statement of will, in which he or she refuses transfusion, he/she takes a risk of illegal medical intervention. There is neither an easy answer, nor a serious solution, thus the only way is to choose the lesser of two evils. Notwithstanding legal issues, there are still ethical problems, which result in an internal dilemma for a doctor.",
author="Kocańda, Kamila
and Głuszek, Stanisław",
pages="321--324",
doi="10.5114/ms.2017.72487",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ms.2017.72487"
}