Open AccessEthics and the COVID-19 pandemic; A clinician’s perspective
Author(s) -
Rajesh Kulkarni,
Aarti Kinikar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of nepal paediatric society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.13
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1990-7982
pISSN - 1990-7974
DOI - 10.3126/jnps.v40i2.29409
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , bioethics , medicine , pandemic , covid-19 , duty , duty of care , engineering ethics , medical ethics , personal protective equipment , nursing , virology , pathology , psychiatry , law , disease , political science , artificial intelligence , outbreak , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised exigent medical, ethical and organizational challenges. While some excellent articles have been published about the ethical aspects of pandemics from a bioethicist’s perspective , there is meager published literature on clinician’s perspective. The issues important from a clinician’s point of view are duty to treat, personal safety, safety of family, safety of colleagues, resource allocation, care for non COVID-19 patients and research.