PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Paquita C de Zulueta
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.