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- Published on: 18 May 2017
- Published on: 18 May 2017
- Published on: 18 May 2017Reasoned and reasonable approaches to ethics in undergraduate medical coursesShow More
Dear Editor,
Why is it that despite having many of the same concerns about how ethics may be included within undergraduate medical curricula, I write to state my concerns about Cowley's formulation and conclusions?
I think my main problem is with an argument which starts from a position of criticising 'universalising' but offers as a substitute, the idealising of another universality - 'their own healthy i...
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None declared. - Published on: 18 May 2017Re: The dangers of medical ethicsShow More
Dear Editor,
I did enjoy this article for it canvassed much of the disquiet I have felt over the Four. The problem arises when the principles are extrapolated to being rules, like changing a dirt road to a railway line – the user is no longer permitted to leave the track. Regrettably much of medicine has been taught in this way, the principle of evidence based practice, which has always been present (its just that th...
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