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Commentary: Physicians as Public Servants in the Setting of Bioterrorism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2006

G. Caleb Alexander  and
John D. Lantos
G. Caleb Alexander
Affiliation:
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Chicago, Illinois
John D. Lantos
Affiliation:
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Chicago, Illinois
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Physicians have special professional obligations to respond to medical emergencies. A bioterrorism attack would be a medical emergency. Thus, it seems that physicians would have an obligation to respond to a bioterrorist attack. However, the scope of those obligations, and their limits, are vexed topics. General rules may be comforting but the details and nuances of particular situations will always be relevant.This work was supported by the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. The funding source had no role in the analysis or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: BIOETHICS AND WAR
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 422 - 423
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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