The morality of care: case study and review

J Med Ethics. 2012 Dec;38(12):763-4. doi: 10.1136/jme.2011.042911. Epub 2011 May 26.

Abstract

This case concerns aspects of the treatment of a post-surgical patient in a major public hospital in New Zealand during the author's experiences as a fourth year medical student. This case is used to consider the interlinked ethical issues of sympathy, moral virtue, dignity and how the medical environment can realign these values.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Beneficence
  • Colectomy
  • Emergency Treatment
  • Empathy*
  • Ethics, Medical* / education
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Internship and Residency / ethics*
  • Moral Obligations*
  • Narcotics / administration & dosage
  • New Zealand
  • Pain / drug therapy
  • Pain / etiology
  • Personhood*
  • Physician-Patient Relations / ethics*
  • Social Values
  • Surgical Wound Infection
  • Virtues
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Narcotics