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Should doctors ever be professionally required to change their attitudes?
- Source :
- Clinical Ethics; 2009, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p67-73, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- The General Medical Council instructs doctors not to allow their personal beliefs to interfere with their practice. But if attitudes can threaten to impact negatively on a doctor's practice then the question arises: should doctors ever be professionally required to change their attitudes? In this paper I suggest that doctors should be required to amend their attitudes if two conditions are met, namely: (1) the doctor has an attitude that if neglected by the doctor will (or is very likely to) compromise his or her fitness to practise; and (2) the only way in which the doctor can prevent that attitude from compromising his or her fitness to practise is by changing the attitude. I also answer three objections that might be raised against the position that I advance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DISCIPLINE of physicians
PROFESSIONAL ethics
MEDICAL ethics
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14777509
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Clinical Ethics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 41018211
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1258/ce.2008.008042