PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - de Zulueta, Paquita C TI - Suffering, compassion and ‘doing good medical ethics’ AID - 10.1136/medethics-2014-102355 DP - 2015 Jan 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 87--90 VI - 41 IP - 1 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/1/87.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/1/87.full SO - J Med Ethics2015 Jan 01; 41 AB - ‘Doing good medical ethics’ involves attending to both the biomedical and existential aspects of illness. For this, we need to bring in a phenomenological perspective to the clinical encounter, adopt a virtue-based ethic and resolve to re-evaluate the goals of medicine, in particular the alleviation of suffering and the role of compassion in everyday ethics.