TY - JOUR T1 - Personal perspectives: having the time to observe the patient JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 215 LP - 216 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2020-107041 VL - 48 IS - 4 AU - Simon D Taylor-Robinson Y1 - 2022/04/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/48/4/215.abstract N2 - Being a medically qualified patient can be an unpleasant experience for a person who is used to making decisions. For the most part, this applies to the vast majority of doctors and other healthcare professionals. Becoming passive and surrendering the decision-making process to others is alien to the medical culture we were taught. However, when as a hospitalised medically qualified patient, one sees fellow patients in difficulty, or deteriorating clinically, unnoticed by medical staff, the question of whether it is ethical to intervene arises. I report my views on this as a largely passive, but still actively thinking patient.There are no data in this work. ER -