Ethical and Medico-legal Dimensions in Pain and Spine Practice
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.