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Moral Complicity: Personal, Clinical, and Organizational Ethics

July 17, 2004
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Healthcare professionals are expected to make decisions all the time, and many of those decisions have moral implications.  Such moral decisions may involve personal ethics (what is right for one’s self), clinical ethics (what is right for the patient), or organizational ethics (what is right for the organization).  What standards should be used in these circumstances?  How much responsibility does the individual decision-maker bear?  If you are involved with someone else’s moral decision that is contrary to your personal values, do you bear some of the moral responsibility?  Assessment of one’s moral complicity is dependent on several factors, including timing, proximity, certitude, awareness, intent and perhaps others.  This presentation will address the issue of moral complicity for the healthcare professional as he or she makes decisions and also as he or she intersects with others’ decisions.

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"morality, personal ethics, business ethics, clinical ethics"