Abstract
It is practically impossible to go through medical training, or even just to be around the medical field, without a discussion or two along the way about the proper course of action in a difficult medical situation. The challenging medical ethical questions are legion. The pressure of time may drive one past the initial questions of how to arrive at an answer to an ethical dilemma on to the concluding question, “What should we do?” This chapter is about those initial questions and asks what are some of the principles involved and what is a process that can be used to arrive at the answer to a difficult medical ethical challenge. In short, it is on the fundamentals of medical ethics.
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Rawlings, A.L. (2016). Fundamentals of Medical Ethics. In: Stain, S., Pryor, A., Shadduck, P. (eds) The SAGES Manual Ethics of Surgical Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27663-2_23
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