TY - JOUR
T1 - Roles of the Clinical Ethics Consultant
T2 - A Response to Kornfeld and Prager
AU - Vaughan, David Michael
AU - Permar, Rebecca
AU - Rakestraw, Corisa
AU - Hart, Ryan
AU - Griffin, Leslie C.
AU - Winslade, William J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2019 The Journal of Clinical Ethics. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - We believe that clinical ethics consultants (CECs) should offer advice, options, and recommendations to attending physicians and their teams. In their article in this issue of The Journal of Clinical Ethics, however, Kornfeld and Prager give CECs a somewhat different role. The CEC they describe may at times be more aptly understood as a medical interventionist who appropriates the roles of the attending physician and the medical team than as a traditional CEC. In these remarks, we distinguish the role of the CEC from that of the physician, in contrast to some of these authors' recommendations, which confuse the two roles.
AB - We believe that clinical ethics consultants (CECs) should offer advice, options, and recommendations to attending physicians and their teams. In their article in this issue of The Journal of Clinical Ethics, however, Kornfeld and Prager give CECs a somewhat different role. The CEC they describe may at times be more aptly understood as a medical interventionist who appropriates the roles of the attending physician and the medical team than as a traditional CEC. In these remarks, we distinguish the role of the CEC from that of the physician, in contrast to some of these authors' recommendations, which confuse the two roles.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 31188787
AN - SCOPUS:85068110134
SN - 1046-7890
VL - 30
SP - 117
EP - 120
JO - The Journal of clinical ethics
JF - The Journal of clinical ethics
IS - 2
ER -