How clinicians make (or avoid) moral judgments of patients: implications of the evidence for relationships and research

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Physicians, nurses, and other clinicians readily acknowledge being troubled by encounters with patients who trigger moral judgments. For decades social scientists have noted that moral judgment of patients is pervasive, occurring not only in egregious and crimina...

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Main Author: Hill Terry E
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-07-01
Series:Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Online Access:http://www.peh-med.com/content/5/1/11