Referrals – practitioner, patient & specialist obligations

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dc.contributor.authorNaidoo, Sudeshni
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-22T08:33:27Z
dc.date.available2018-05-22T08:33:27Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe profession of dentistry has both benevolent and protective aspects with regards to duty of care to patients, to always try to do the best for the patients and to fulfill the principle of non-maleficence –to do no harm. This principle expresses the concept that professionals have a duty to protect the patient from harm. Under this principle, the dentist’s primary obligations include keeping knowledge and skills current, knowing one’s own limitations and when to refer to a specialist or other professional. All dentists, whether generalists or specialists, have both legal and ethical responsibilities to their patients – legally they need to exercise reasonable skill and care and ethically they are obligated to always put the best interests of the patients first (above personal or professional interests) and to carry out treatment to the standard of care set by the profession.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHET
dc.identifier.citationNaidoo, S. (2016). Referrals – practitioner, patient & specialist obligations. South African Dental Journal, 71(2): 82 - p84en_US
dc.identifier.issn1029-4864
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3716
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSouth African Dental Associationen_US
dc.rightsThis file may be freely used for educational uses. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this file is permitted without written permission of the South African Dental Association (SADA). Note that the SADA retains all intellectual property rights in the article.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectInterests of the patientsen_US
dc.subjectTreatmenten_US
dc.subjectReferralen_US
dc.titleReferrals – practitioner, patient & specialist obligationsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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