When Following the Rules Feels Wrong. Issue 1 (25th February 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tate, Tyler
• Is Part Of: Hastings Center report. Volume 51:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 4
• Page End: 5
• Publication Date: 2021-02-25
• Subjects: moral distress -- end‐of‐life care -- pediatric palliative care -- Covid-19 -- uncertainty -- health policy -- clinical ethics; Medical ethics -- Periodicals; Bioethics -- Periodicals; 174.205
• DOI: 10.1002/hast.1211
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0093-0334

Abstract

Abstract: The Covid‐19 pandemic has created a clinical environment in which health care practitioners are experiencing moral distress in numerous and novel ways. In this narrative reflection, a pediatric palliative care physician explores how his hospital's strict visitation policy set the stage for moral distress when, in the early months of the pandemic, it prevented two parents from being together at the bedside of their dying child .