Moral Judgments and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Whatever strategy you employ to encourage vaccinations, it is important to be respectful and empathize with your patient’s concerns and perspectives.
Whatever strategy you employ to encourage vaccinations, it is important to be respectful and empathize with your patient’s concerns and perspectives.
An appreciation of the virtues one wishes to embody can help to navigate the complex ethical dilemmas physicians may face during the COVID-19 crisis.
Meeting public demand for an urgently needed effective medication quickly and safely during a pandemic involves difficult tradeoffs.
Physicians should frame treatment options by their “harms and benefits,” not by their “risks and benefits.”
Physicians must be open about secondary interests such as financial gain that have the potential to bias their clinical judgment.