Pain management and spine care involve complex ethical and medico-legal challenges due to patient vulnerability, subjective symptomatology, high-risk interventions, and variable outcomes. Clinicians must balance effective pain relief with patient autonomy, safety, and legal accountability. This chapter outlines the core ethical principles and medico-legal considerations relevant to contemporary pain and spine practice, providing a framework for ethically sound and legally defensible clinical decision-making.

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Ethical and Medico-legal Dimensions in Pain and Spine Practice

  • Sai Surya Dinesh Pydi,
  • Vishal Kumar

摘要

Pain management and spine care involve complex ethical and medico-legal challenges due to patient vulnerability, subjective symptomatology, high-risk interventions, and variable outcomes. Clinicians must balance effective pain relief with patient autonomy, safety, and legal accountability. This chapter outlines the core ethical principles and medico-legal considerations relevant to contemporary pain and spine practice, providing a framework for ethically sound and legally defensible clinical decision-making.