Journal article
Balancing the duty to treat with the duty to family in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Healthcare systems around the world are struggling to maintain a sufficient workforce to provide adequate care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Staffing problems have been exacerbated by healthcare workers (HCWs) refusing to work out of concern for their families. I sketch a deontological framework for assessing when it is morally permissible for HCWs to abstain from work to protect their families from infection and when it is a dereliction of duty to patients. I argue that it is morally permiss...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/medethics-2020-106250
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Medical Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 360-363
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-4257
- ISSN:
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0306-6800
- Pubs id:
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1102376
- Local pid:
- pubs:1102376
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- English
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- Copyright holder:
- McConnell
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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