How physician executives and clinicians perceive ethical issues in Saudi Arabian hospitals

Article Abstract:

Self-administered questionnaires have been used to gain an insight into the perceptions of physician executives and clinicians in Saudi Arabia about ethical issues their hospitals must address. This research has also compared the views of physician executives and clinicians on the attributes that lead to the emergence of ethical issues in their hospitals. It has been shown that there are differences in how physician executives and clinicians see the same situations. The two groups are likely to follow different ethical theories in how they view a specific situation.

Saudi Arabia

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Voluntary euthanasia under control? Further empirical evidence from the Netherlands

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A wide-reaching survey published in 1996 into end-of-life decisions by Dutch doctors in 1995 indicates that the intentional shortening of patients' lives without explicit request is by no means uncommon. In most cases, doctors did not discuss euthanasia with the patient because the patient was unable to do so, but not all patients whose lives were ended without an explicit request were incompetent. It is clear that doctors quite frequently resort to euthanasia, even when they feel that alternative treatments are available.

Ethical aspects, Euthanasia

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Responsibility to or for in the physician-patient relationship?

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The emergence of neo-paternalism from malpractice litigation can remove a patient's moral agency by the physician taking both control and responsibility for all decisions from the patient. A better patient-physician relationship envisions medical treatment as a shared goal. The importance of communication between patient and physician in most situations has been realized with the possible exception of emergencies. The responsibility to patients instead of for patients can be a solution to neo-paternalism.

Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations

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