RT Article
T1 UNDERSTANDING DOCTORS' ETHICAL CHALLENGES AS ROLE VIRTUE CONFLICTS
JF Bioethics
VO 27
IS 1
SP 20
OP 27
A1 Mcdougall, Rosalind
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1781884242
AB This paper argues that doctors' ethical challenges can be usefully conceptualised as role virtue conflicts. The hospital environment requires doctors to be simultaneously good doctors, good team members, good learners and good employees. I articulate a possible set of role virtues for each of these four roles, as a basis for a virtue ethics approach to analysing doctors' ethical challenges. Using one junior doctor's story, I argue that understanding doctors' ethical challenges as role virtue conflicts enables recognition of important moral considerations that are overlooked by other approaches to ethical analysis.
K1 medical errors
K1 junior doctors
K1 Virtue Ethics
K1 Roles
DO 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01893.x