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Ethics Lessons From Seattle’s Early Experience With COVID-19

Name / volume / issue

78418

Page number

67-74

Primary author

Denise M. Dudzinski, Benjamin Y. Hoisington & Crystal E. Brown

Tag(s): Journal article

Abstract

Ethics consultants and critical care clinicians reflect on Seattle’s early experience as the United States’ first epicenter of COVID-19. We discuss ethically salient issues confronted at UW Medicine’s hospitals and provide lessons for other health care institutions that may soon face what we have faced.

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