News
The Right Choice? A New Chapter
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: December 14, 2018
We must not forget how significant our relationships with our patients can be.
News
Communication and consent
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: October 4, 2018
Good communication skills including listening to the patient and the patient’s reasoning are essential in obtaining informed consent.
Opinion
The Right Choice? Modifiable risk factors and surgical decision making
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: August 14, 2018
Surgeons allow significant latitude for patients to make individual decisions about assuming greater or lesser risks.
Opinion
The right choice? Surgery “offered” or “recommended”?
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: October 19, 2017
We must accept that patients can refuse even the most strongly recommended treatments.
Article
The right choice? Surgeons, confidence, and humility
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: February 17, 2017
It started as an offhand comment. The patient had been on the medicine service for over a week before developing acute appendicitis with an...
News
The Right Choice? Surgeons, confidence, and humility
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: February 17, 2017
Most successful surgeons express a level of confidence in their abilities which often exceeds that of many other physicians. Such observations...
Opinion
The Problem of ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’ for Surgeons
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: October 11, 2016
News
The Right Choice? When surgery is not the right choice
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: March 13, 2016
News
The Right Choice? Kindness and Surgical Ethics: Reflections on a Friend and Mentor
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: January 6, 2016
News
The Right Choice? The importance of sometimes saying “no”
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: February 18, 2015
News
The Right Choice? Paternalism, Autonomy, and the Incidental Finding
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: November 6, 2014
News
The Downside of Truth
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: March 26, 2014
News
The personal dimension of informed consent
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: December 3, 2013
News
How was your night, Doc? The limits of disclosure in preop
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: September 18, 2013
News
Do surgical residents need ethics teaching?
- Author:
- Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Publish date: April 2, 2013