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Journal Article
Military Medical Ethics — Physician First, Last, Always
2008
Overview
The global war on terror has brought renewed attention to the question of whether physicians in the U.S. military are physicians first, soldiers first, or physician–soldiers. George Annas writes that it is not surprising that wars have produced battlefield situations in which suspending patient-centered medical ethics has seemed reasonable.
The global war on terror has brought renewed attention to the question of whether physicians in the U.S. military are physicians first, soldiers first, or physician–soldiers, or whether some other formulation best describes their medical–ethical obligations. The chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, Edmund Pellegrino, has insisted that medical ethics are and must be the same for civilian and military physicians, “except in the most extreme contingencies.”
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There is no special medical ethics for active-duty military physicians any more than there is for Veterans Affairs physicians, National Guard physicians, public health physicians, prison physicians, or managed care physicians. The . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
