TY - JOUR T1 - Suffering, compassion and ‘doing good medical ethics’ JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 87 LP - 90 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2014-102355 VL - 41 IS - 1 AU - Paquita C de Zulueta Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/1/87.abstract N2 - ‘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. ER -