Commentary on unwanted pregnancy, induced abortion, and professional ethics: a concerned physician's point of view

Villarreal, Jorge

doi:10.1016/0020-7292(89)90103-3

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“…8 It has been expressed that community ethics should be the aggregate of cultural norms, and that personal ethics and ethical behaviour is the internalisation and then practice of such values and norms. 9 However, with conflicting values in society and divisive positions on various medical interventions, what is truly ethical and moral may be very different than majority opinion or the dictates of popular culture and governing bodies. 6 Transcripts of the Nuremberg trials expose what is possible when professionals follow the defined legal system, community standards, political commands, and dictates of the ruling medical authorities of the day.…”

Section: Ethical Foundationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dismembering the ethical physician

Genuis¹

2006

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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Physicians may experience ethical distress when they are caught in difficult clinical situations that demand ethical decision making, particularly when their preferred action may contravene the expectations of patients and established authorities. When principled and competent doctors succumb to patient wishes or establishment guidelines and participate in actions they perceive to be ethically inappropriate, or agree to refrain from interventions they believe to be in the best interests of patients, individual professional integrity may be diminished, and ethical reliability is potentially compromised. In a climate of ever-proliferating ethical quandaries, it is essential for the medical community, health institutions, and governing bodies to pursue a judicious tension between the indispensable regulation of physicians necessary to maintain professional standards and preserve public safety, and the support for “freedom of conscience” that principled physicians require to practise medicine in keeping with their personal ethical orientation.

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Section: Ethical Foundationsmentioning

confidence: 99%