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In Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Physicians Already Know What to Do

Name / volume / issue

78418

Page number

9-12

Primary author

Laurence B. McCullough

Tag(s): Journal article

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted multiple responses from bioethicists and bioethics organizations. One prominent response has come from The Hastings Center, “Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions and Guidelines for Institutional Ethics Services Responding to the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic” (Hastings Center 2020). […]

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