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- Title
When a physician and a clinical ethicist collaborate for better patient care.
- Authors
Arawi, Thalia; Charafeddine, Lama
- Abstract
Bioethics is a relatively new addition to bedside medical care in Arab world which is characterized by a special culture that often makes blind adaptation of western ethics codes and principles; a challenge that has to be faced. To date, the American University of Beirut Medical Center is the only hospital that offers bedside ethics consultations in the Arab Region aiming towards better patient-centered care. This article tackles the role of the bedside clinical ethics consultant as an active member of the medical team and the impact of such consultations on decision-making and patient-centered care. Using the case of a child with multiple medical problems and a futile medical condition, we describe how the collaboration of the medical team and the clinical ethics consultant took a comprehensive approach to accompany and lead the parents and the medical team in their decision-making process and how the consultations allowed several salient issues to be addressed. This approach proved to be effective in the Arab cultural setting and indeed did lead to better patientcentered care.
- Subjects
LEBANON; MIDDLE East; BIOETHICS; DECISION making; AMERICAN University of Beirut; PATIENT-centered care; HEALTH services administration; BEDSIDE reporting; CULTURE; ETHICS; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL ethics; PARENTS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; FUTILE medical care
- Publication
Developing World Bioethics, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 2, p198
- ISSN
1471-8731
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/dewb.12188