Medical students in a time of HIV: education and the duty to treat
作者:
S G Post,
J R Botkin,
L A Headrick,
期刊:
Medical Education
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 29,
issue 2
页码: 128-132
ISSN:0737-3805
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1995.tb02815.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: ethics, medical/*educ;*students, medical;*HIV infections;*refusal to treat;United States
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
SUMMARYThis article concerns medical education about the ethics of professional duties and treatment of HIV‐infected patients. The issue at hand is not whether medical students have a duty to treat HIV‐infected patients, since it is a matter of consensus that they do. Medical schools have reasserted that risks are inherent in medicine, and that medical school admission should be based on the willingness to accept some risks, in addition to intelligence and personal skills. Those who wish to avoid risks are free to enter other professions. While it is imperative to assert a duty to treat, this requires thoughtful explanation to match the understandably high anxiety levels of many medical stude
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