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When fiduciary duty clashes with duty to the state

Author(s) -

Rakhi Ghoshal

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

indian journal of medical ethics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204

H-Index - 16

eISSN - 0975-5691

pISSN - 0974-8466

DOI - 10.20529/ijme.2018.034

Subject(s) - fiduciary , duty , state (computer science) , law , cash , political science , business , law and economics , sociology , finance , algorithm , computer science

In their case study Cash and Castro discuss a situation where a physician's duties to the laws of her land stand in conflict with her fiduciary duties to her patient. This present commentary is a response to the situation they describe, and it engages with the issue of conscientious objection in medicine, to argue that the ethical responsibility of the physician should be tilted in favour of the patient, especially when the laws of the land are regressive and harmful.

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