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Introduction: Dual loyalty and mixed obligations

Author: Dr phil Daniel Messelken | ZH Center for Military Medical Ethics. The problem of “dual loyalties” is not a new one and is, in fact, not restricted to the military context. It is sometimes...

12 Sep, 2018 Views: 351 Comments: 0

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Dual loyalty and/or mixed obligations

Introduction: Dual loyalty and mixed obligations

Conflicting roles

Reporting abuse

Medical officer leading anti-insurgent raid

Isolated at sea – Mission first?

Estimating the age of captured persons

Only one equipment but two patients

Injured civilians and mission safety

Mandatory vaccination (1)

Mandatory vaccination (2)

Local leader / VIP patient

Treatment Eligibility (Ebola mission)

Conflicting priorities in the laboratory (Ebola mission)

Potential ambush preventing first aid

Protecting the health of captured pirates

Medevac helicopter for reconnaissance purposes?

Looking the other way

Resources for local civilians or reserved for emergency treatment of own?

VIP treatment?

Ethical versus Military Imperatives

Treatment of Detainees: Role of Military Health Professionals

Reversed triage priorities?

(Forced) Dialysis for a Prisoner of War

Delayed transport of wounded enemy to medical facility on purpose?

Reporting abuse?

Refusal of orders

Hunger strike to protest against detention

Complicity in interrogation

Risky fast help

Refusal to evacuate a wounded national

Mandatory COVID vaccination

Fitness for duty

Return to duty?

RTD: Treat Gonorrhea or battle wounds first?

Risky participation in a marathon

The medical secret

Disclosure in the public interest?

Ethical versus Military Imperatives

Return to Duty: Ethical Issues for Military Health Professionals

Return to duty – or treat PTSD?

Dream assignment

Early signs of hearing loss

Medical confidentiality

Prove identity by blood samples?

Treatment of self-inflicted injury

Estimating the age of captured persons

Risky participation in a marathon

The medical secret

Rape victim in a difficult context

Local leader / VIP patient

Use of close circuit television (CCTV) to monitor patients in an infectious disease setting

Disclosure in the public interest?

Reporting abuse?

HCP in combatant role

Medical officer leading anti-insurgent raid