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When Following the Rules Feels Wrong
Author(s) -
Tate Tyler
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.1211
Subject(s) - distress , narrative , pandemic , psychology , covid-19 , set (abstract data type) , palliative care , health care , nursing , social psychology , medicine , law , psychotherapist , political science , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
The Covid‐19 pandemic has created a clinical environment in which health care practitioners are experiencing moral distress in numerous and novel ways. In this narrative reflection, a pediatric palliative care physician explores how his hospital's strict visitation policy set the stage for moral distress when, in the early months of the pandemic, it prevented two parents from being together at the bedside of their dying child .