King’s College London Student Clinical Ethics Committee case discussion: A family requests that their grandmother, who does not speak English, is not informed of her terminal diagnosis

Johnston, Carolyn; Baty, Michael; Liu, Sky

doi:10.1177/1477750915622036

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“…The journal Clinical Ethics has published a number of case discussions of the SCEC, co-authored by the student who has referred the case [7][8][9][10].…”

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Roles of Student Ethics Committees in Preparing Future Physicians

Johnston

2016

AMA Journal of Ethics

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“…The journal Clinical Ethics has published a number of case discussions of the SCEC, co-authored by the student who has referred the case [7][8][9][10].…”

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Roles of Student Ethics Committees in Preparing Future Physicians

Johnston

2016

AMA Journal of Ethics

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“…Johnston et al .’s 1 case study “ A family requests that their grandmother, who does not speak English, is not informed of her terminal diagnosis ” is a great case for discussion but in my view the most ethically salient issue was not headlined and the case highlights the limitations of this form of Clinical Ethics Committee.…”

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Culturally competent clinical ethics: Case study response: Response to case study: A family requests that their grandmother, who does not speak English, is not informed of her terminal diagnosis

Gray

2016

Clinical Ethics

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The case study: a family requests that their grandmother, who does not speak English, is not informed of her terminal diagnosis focusses mostly on the issues of autonomy of patient and truth telling but fails to highlight the most ethically salient feature of the case; the clinician did not talk to the patient. The case study notes that the patient spoke a dialect of Cantonese and felt that translation services might not have been readily available. This is unacceptable practice given the easy availability of professional telephone interpreters. In addition, it rendered the rest of the discussion academic as without a professional interpreter the clinician had no idea exactly what the family member who was interpreting was saying to their grandmother. This is an excellent case to discuss the ethics of the care of culturally and linguistically diverse people and the importance of interpreter use in patients with limited English proficiency. This case is also a good illustration of a limitation of Clinical Ethics Committees. A common norm is that there is no patient involvement in the deliberations of the committee. Without any patient involvement, it is very difficult to understand the patient's position (well illustrated in this case) and impossible to engage in dialogue to find an agreed management plan.

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King’s College London Student Clinical Ethics Committee case discussion: A family requests that their grandmother, who does not speak English, is not informed of her terminal diagnosis

Cited by 2 publications

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Roles of Student Ethics Committees in Preparing Future Physicians

Roles of Student Ethics Committees in Preparing Future Physicians

Culturally competent clinical ethics: Case study response: Response to case study: A family requests that their grandmother, who does not speak English, is not informed of her terminal diagnosis

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