Abstract
Current medical ethics, law, and education all emphasize patient empowerment and shared decision making as a means of avoiding paternalism. But what if doctors are paternalistically deciding that patients may not choose paternalism by forcing them to be involved when they would rather just feel better and leave it to the professionals? Two separate surveys were administered to a cross section of adult Americans through Amazon's Mechanical Turk to measure attitudes toward paternalism in various scenarios. This review discusses the results of these surveys and how they may be implemented in order to better understand how to interact with patients in medical settings.
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