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GB Shaw
..a profession is a group of people who band together to hide their own shortcomings..
Preface to The Doctor’s Dilemma
Illness as metaphor
• Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship…everyone holds dual citizenship
• Impossible to take up residence unprejudiced by the lurid metaphors with which it has been landscaped
• Upstream ethics
• Towards an ethics of care, communication and competence
• Emphasis on personhood in old age and dementia
Why?
• Special position of trust
• Not like repairing a car
• Can do lasting harm
• Huge fiscal implications of practice
Barriers I
Non-prioritization by profession
Media obsessionwith end-of-life/hard issues
Strangers at the bedside• Lawyers• Some non-clinician ethicists
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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And every human heart that breaks,In prison-cell or yard,Is as that broken box that gaveIts treasure to the Lord,And filled the unclean leper’s houseWith the scent of costliest nard.
Prisoners and health
• Worse than general population
• Older prisoners even worseCollins, 2006
Novick, 1997
• Trebling of older prisoners in UK 1990-2000
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Students in UK
• 47% placed in a situation where they had to act unethically
• 61% observed a teacher acting unethically• 3 main types
– Conflict between medical education and clinical care
– Responsibility exceeding student’s capabilities– Involvement in care perceived to be
substandard
Hicks, BMJ, 2001
Intimate examinations
• A survey of students in one medical school found that intimate examinations had been done by second and third year students in situations that they found disconcerting
• It also found that a quarter of examinations in anaesthetised or sedated patients seem not to have adequate consent from patients
Coldicott, BMJ, 2003
What students see..• Communicative violations
– (to or about patients or other health care professionals)
• Role resistance – (individuals chafing against constraints or expectations of their
perceived roles)
• Objectification of patients – (ignoring patients or treating patients as vehicles for learning)
• Accountability – (to colleagues or patients, including avoiding patients, failing to
disclose information, or failing to treat appropriately)
• Physical harm – (to patients or others)
• Crossfire – (being put in the middle of a struggle between superiors)
Ginsburg, Academic Medicine, 2002
How they incorporate it…
• Sense of witnessing (n = 34) • Knowing about (n = 4)• As opposed to self-reported (n = 10)
Clinical clerkships USA
• 58% reported having done something they believed was unethical
• 52% reported having misled a patient• 80% reported at least one of these two
behaviors• 98% had heard physicians refer
derogatorily to patients
• 98% had heard physicians refer derogatorily to patients
• 61% had witnessed what they believed to be unethical behavior by other medical team members
• Of these students, 54% felt like accomplices
Feudtner, Acad Med, 1994
• More likely to experience erosion of own ethical principles or act improperly– Evaluation fear– Fear of not fitting in
Since, for the most part, students believe that they behave ethically, they are
less likely to see the need for medical ethics education. So, unlike philosophy programme education, the first hurdle for
professional schools ethics education is the
establishment of its importance and its relevance
R Rhodes, 2002
….(medical students) showed a levelling process of their moral
reasoning. This finding prompts us to ask whether a hidden curriculum
exists in the structure of medical education that inhibits rather than
facilitates the development of moral reasoning.
Patenaude, CMAJ, 2003
Prisoners in A/E
• 20/20 assessed chained to prison officers
• Including 65 year-old, 5’ 2” , acutely dyspnoeic after MI
Upstream ethics
• If we don’t get the every day discourse right….
• Small abuses lead to larger abuses
Prisoners in A/E
• Risk assessment• Liaison between hospital and
prison• Secure facilities• Urgency prioritization
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Capital Punishment
Disallowed actions include:• Starting intravenous lines for lethal
injection drug• Determining death during execution• Administering the lethal drug• Supervising personnel who give the
lethal drug
Capital Punishment
Disallowed actions include:• Ordering lethal drugs for the prison
pharmacy• Maintaining or inspecting lethal
injection devices • Monitoring vital signs during execution • Selecting injection sites for lethal drugs
Physician Attitudes about
Capital Punishment• 80% indicated that at least 1 of the disallowed
actions was acceptable
• 53% indicated that 5 or more were acceptable
• 34% approved all 8 disallowed actions
AMNCH Survey
• 76 consultants and 139 NCHDs
• 184 responded: 60% of the consultants and 100% of the JHDs
• 98% had treated prisoner patients at some stage in their career and 90% had done so in the last 2 years.
• 60% felt uncomfortable whilst examining patients who were prisoners
• 181 (98%) were unaware of any guidelines in place for the treatment of prisoner patients in general hospitals
Balanced score-card
• Self-evaluation and awareness accepted in medical profession
• Need to develop structures and guidelines appropriate to professional practice with prisoners
I never saw a man who lookedWith such a wistful eyeUpon that little tent of blueWhich prisoners call the sky
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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• Reason..must approach nature [science] in order to be taught by it: but not in the character of a pupil who agrees to everything the master likes, but as an appointed judge who compels the witnesses to answer the questions he himself proposes
Kant, A Critique of Pure Reason
Scientism
• ..science’s belief in itself: that is, the conviction that we can no longer understand science as one form of form of knowledge, but rather must identify knowledge with science
Habermas, Knowledge and Human Inquiry
Profession
• Develop articulacy
• Make case for adequate resource
• Deal with prejudice
• Self-critical
• Strive for evidence base
• Avoid artificial dichotolies
Priorities
• Develop ethics of– Communication– Competency
• Research
• Shake complacency
• Joint working of clinicians/philosophy