The Ethics of an Ordinary Doctor. (January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Branch, William T.
• Is Part Of: Hastings Center report. Volume 44:Number 1(2014:Jan./Feb.)
• Page Start: 15
• Page End: 17
• Publication Date: 2014-01
• Subjects: Medical ethics -- Periodicals; Bioethics -- Periodicals; 174.205
• DOI: 10.1002/hast.250
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0093-0334

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>Abstract</title> <p> <italic>I served as a medical student and resident in the 1960s. Science as a belief system had reached a pinnacle. Yet Not infrequently in those days, I found myself caring, with little available backup, for a hospital ward filled with sick and dying people. It was a lonely and often frightening responsibility. I began to encounter situations that were at odds with our collective certainty that science would provide the answers. Some of these memories I repressed for almost a decade. I was unable to process them until I had personally experienced a more humanistic side of medicine</italic>.</p> </abstract>