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Certainty and Uncertainty: Medical Ethics and the General Practitioner

Certainty and Uncertainty: Medical Ethics and the General Practitioner Certainty and Uncertainty: Medical Ethics and the General Practitioner ROGER HIGGS Who should receive expensive transplant society at large? What if good economic sense surgery? Should a teenager get contraceptive makes poor morality, or vice versa? What if the advice from her doctor without her parents' views of the professional and the patient conflict knowledge? Can we allow experiments on human because each is based on a different religious or embryos or on animals? The dilemmas of modern political conviction? And what about the law? To medicine come tumbling out of the pages of respond in an unreflective, authoritarian or newspapers or vie for our attention on television simply defensive style is unprofessional and screens. Even if the problems are not new, the possibly immoral in itself. Like it or not, faced media remind us that this is no longer just a with such complex issues, doctors need medical discussion between the individual professional ethics. and the patient. The theatre of debate is now Two articles in this journal reinforce this public, all the world is the stage. Denied the message, and it is worthwhile as well to look proscenium, with an audience not needing a beyond them at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Family Practice Oxford University Press

Certainty and Uncertainty: Medical Ethics and the General Practitioner

HIGGS, ROGER
Family Practice , Volume 2 (4) – Dec 1, 1985
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Certainty and Uncertainty: Medical Ethics and the General Practitioner ROGER HIGGS Who should receive expensive transplant society at large? What if good economic sense surgery? Should a teenager get contraceptive makes poor morality, or vice versa? What if the advice from her doctor without her parents' views of the professional and the patient conflict knowledge? Can we allow experiments on human because each is based on a different religious or embryos or on animals? The dilemmas of modern political conviction? And what about the law? To medicine come tumbling out of the pages of respond in an unreflective, authoritarian or newspapers or vie for our attention on television simply defensive style is unprofessional and screens. Even if the problems are not new, the possibly immoral in itself. Like it or not, faced media remind us that this is no longer just a with such complex issues, doctors need medical discussion between the individual professional ethics. and the patient. The theatre of debate is now Two articles in this journal reinforce this public, all the world is the stage. Denied the message, and it is worthwhile as well to look proscenium, with an audience not needing a beyond them at

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Family Practice – Oxford University Press

Published: Dec 1, 1985

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