Ethical conflicts: Making care decisions when the right choice isn't clear
04/03/24 at 03:00 AM
Ethical conflicts: Making care decisions when the right choice isn't clear
Medical Economics, by Jeff Bendix; 3/29/24
What should a physician do when their ethical training conflicts with the circumstances or needs of a particular situation or patient? ... Ethical battlegrounds are growing. [Dr. Melissa] Lucarelli’s experience epitomizes, in a small way, a problem with which doctors have grappled for as long as medicine has existed as a profession: what to do when their ethical training conflicts with the circumstances or needs of a particular situation or patient. That question has taken on new urgency in recent years due to several converging trends.