Revisiting the need for intellectual and moral virtues in making ethical decisions in Healthcare
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Patient-physician interaction is an essential factor influencing the patient’s health management decisions. This communication allows the patients to develop trust in the treating physicians and facilitates them in deciding what’s best for themselves. The physicians, on the other hand, may interact with the patients based on three moral philosophies i.e. as a part of their duty (deontology), as a part of anticipating consequences (consequentialism) and as a part of being a virtuous doctor (virtue ethics). In this communication, we aim to debate the need and utility of having moral virtues for ethical decision-making. We will also evaluate the role of intellectual virtues in patient-doctor interaction for decisions taken on clinical grounds. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.11.10602 How to cite this: Naeem NK. Revisiting the need for intellectual and moral virtues in making ethical decisions in Healthcare Pak J Med Sci. 2024;40(11):2455-2457. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.11.10602 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Author: Noor-i-Kiran Naeem
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $400
OpenAlex ID: W4404556835