Military Medical Ethics – Scenario Collection

Looking the other way

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Last updated: 19 Nov, 2018
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You are asked to assess a civilian patient, who has recently sustained life-threatening injuries, and to advise whether she is well enough to be transferred to a medical facility under the command of another nation's armed forces.

You have reason to believe that staff within that facility have not complied with humanitarian principles in the past and that patients have been mistreated. This is something that is widely but informally acknowledged among members of your own unit.

Source: BMA Medical Ethics Committee and Armed Forces Committee Ethical decision-making for doctors in the armed forces: a tool kit, London, BMA, p. 45.

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