JEMS Talk: Ethics, Education and EMS: Calibrating a Moral Compass
Hear an important JEMS Talk on ethics in emergency medical services and mobile medicine.
Items Discussed
• The belief that field clinicians can/should be trusted to make ethical and moral decisions.
• Are we educating clinicians on how to make such assessments, or are we training clinicians to paint by number/practice by rote protocol?
• Are “thinking” vs. a scientifically informed, protocolized approach mutually exclusive—or can they inform one another?
• Are we training clinicians to develop their moral compasses?
• What happens when science suggests that the moral or ethical thing to do is…
The skinny
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