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Living and learning during an ethical crisis in medicine.
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PMID:  22319999     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
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The Cartwright Report was released at a time of massive ethical change in New Zealand medicine, the shock waves spreading throughout the region as they caught the surge of interest in patient autonomy and patient rights. The mood was as revolutionary for health professionals as the late 1960s and 1970s were for society in general, with many established patterns of practice and everyday expectations about the nature of clinical care being challenged and disrupted. For some of us who witnessed the medico-legal impact of the report in Australasia, it revived memories of our time as medical students when the events reported on were being played out. Looking back now on a time of moral crisis in medicine has lessons to teach us which have a timeless quality about them as they recall the dim distant days of Semmelweiss and other doctors struggling at a political fringe of the profession.
Authors:
Grant Gillett
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of law and medicine     Volume:  19     ISSN:  1320-159X     ISO Abbreviation:  J Law Med     Publication Date:  2011 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-02-10     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9431853     Medline TA:  J Law Med     Country:  Australia    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  244-9     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Dunedin Hospital and Otago Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand. grant.gillett@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
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