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Joining the team: ethics consultation at the Cleveland Clinic.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  14976686     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
In this paper, I describe the development of ethics consultation services and their operation at the Cleveland Clinic; my own educational experiences and background and how I came to see the importance of setting and collaboration for successfully doing clinical ethics; the unique culture of the Cleveland Clinic and its influence on the ethics consultation services provided there; and, finally, the place of personal commitments and values on the conduct of ethics consultations. I stress the point that although philosophers (and perhaps other bioethicists without health professions training) are socialized and educated to do solitary work, successfully conducting ethics consultations requires relatively high levels of collaboration and cooperation that have not been sufficiently discussed. Although this paper is more a description than an analysis of the influence of institutional setting on ethics consultation, I would claim that attention to setting, either as the local scene of the consultation or the institutional and social framework, deserves more attention by bioethicists intent on understanding ethics consultation.
Authors:
George J Agich
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues     Volume:  15     ISSN:  0956-2737     ISO Abbreviation:  HEC Forum     Publication Date:  2003 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2004-02-23     Completed Date:  2004-03-26     Revised Date:  2005-10-12    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8917455     Medline TA:  HEC Forum     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  310-22     Citation Subset:  E; H    
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Bioethics, Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. agichg@ccf.org
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Descriptor/Qualifier:
Ambulatory Care Facilities / ethics*
Ethicists*
Ethics Committees, Clinical*
Hospitals, Group Practice / ethics*
Humans
Ohio

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