The Making of a Clinical Ethicist: Reviewing the Big Questions. By Mark Kuczewski, PhD and Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD
Dr. Kuczewski is medical ethics director, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, and Dr. Parsi is associate professor, bioethics and health policy, both at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill.
With the declining presence of members of sponsoring religious orders, providing ethics resources to clinicians has become one of the many challenges facing Catholic health care. Sponsors were generally charged with all issues related to mission, including questions of medical ethics. Now, Catholic health care faces the same need as secular institutions: to provide ethics expertise in a competent and professional manner. Catholic facilities must further ensure that their designated resource persons appreciate the richness of the Catholic moral tradition and provide consultation consistent with these norms. Click on link to view entire article.
The Making of a Clinical Ethicist: Reviewing the Big Questions
Health Progress 2009:90(2). Kuczewski M, Parsi K.
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