Medically Vulnerable Clinicians and Unnecessary Risk during the COVID-19 pandemic
by Annie Janvier, MD, PhD and John D. Lantos MD
The COVID-19 crisis has been compared to war. Providers are being drafted. Around the globe, retired clinicians are volunteering. Decisions about who should serve require complex moral choices. Older males are at highest risk. When high-risk providers get seriously ill, they too need hospital beds and/or ventilators.
Some high-risk providers insist that the only virtuous thing to do is to serve on the “COVID-front”; that is a misreading of what virtue requires.…
Source: blog.bioethics.net - Category: Medical Ethics Authors: John Lantos Tags: Editorial-AJOB Featured Posts Medical Humanities professional ethics Professionalism Public Health #covid19 #diaryofaplagueyear COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
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