OK, Boomer, MD: The Rights of Aging Physicians and the Health of Our Communities

Hastings Center Report 50 (6):3-3 (2020)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

How do we balance the rights of aging physicians against the right of the public to competent health care? This version of a classic public health ethics dilemma is here now and likely to increase as the population ages. Peer review has long been the standard mechanism for assessing physician competence, but it is subjective and too easily subverted. New options are needed, both in medicine and throughout the professions, but they are challenging to implement. Physicians have an ethical obligation to protect the health of the public by acknowledging, assessing, and addressing the cognitive effects of aging on medical competence.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1002/hast.1191

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,219

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Physicians' “Right of Conscience”- Beyond Politics.Azgad Gold - 2010 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 38 (1):134-142.
HIV and Entrenched Social Roles: Patients' Rights vs. Physicians' Duties.Vicente Medina - 1994 - Public Affairs Quarterly 8 (4):359-375.
Fiat flux: the writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, nineteenth-century country doctor and philosopher.Wilson R. Bachelor - 2013 - Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press. Edited by William D. Lindsey, Thomas Allen Bruce & Jonathan James Wolfe.
Breach of Trust: Physician Participation in Executions in the United States.Janet Weiner, American College of Physicians, Human Rights Watch, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty & Physicians for Human Rights - 1994 - Human Rights Watch.
Unsatisfied patient’s rights: A survey on the views of patients, nurses and physicians.Alireza Parsapoor, Kazem Mohammad, Hussein Malek Afzali, Farshid Ala’Eddini & Bagher Larijani - 2012 - Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 5:1-9.
Observance of Patient’s Rights: A Survey on the Views of Patients, Nurses, and Physicians.B. Larijani, F. Ala’Eddini, H. Malek Afzali, K. Mohammad & A. Parsapoor - 2012 - Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 5:1-8.
Observance of Patient’s Rights: A Survey on the Views of Patients, Nurses, and Physicians.Alireza Parsapoor, Kazem Mohammad, Hussein Malek Afzali, Farshid Ala’Eddini & Bagher Larijani - 2012 - Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 5:1-8.
Narratives of Aging and the Human Rights of Older Persons.Alison Kesby - 2017 - Human Rights Review 18 (4):371-393.
Conscience Rights and “Effective Referral” in Ontario.Carter Anne McGowan - 2018 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 18 (2):255-268.
Public Health Doctors' Ancillary-Care Obligations.H. S. Richardson - 2010 - Public Health Ethics 3 (1):63-67.
Are physicians willing to ration health care? Conflicting findings in a systematic review of survey research.Daniel Strech, Govind Persad, Georg Marckmann & Marion Danis - 2009 - Health Policy 90 (2):113-124.
Informed consent: its origins, purpose, problems, and limits.Nancy M. Kettle - unknown
Conflict of interest in medicine in lithuania: Legal and ethical aspects.Rytis Virbalis - 2002 - Science and Engineering Ethics 8 (3):349-352.
No Exceptionalism Needed to Treat Terrorists.Chiara Lepora, Marion Danis & Alan Wertheimer - 2009 - American Journal of Bioethics 9 (10):53-54.
Medicine Betrayed: The Participation of Doctors in Human Rights Abuses.British Medical Association - 1992 - Zed Books.

Analytics

Added to PP
2020-12-15

Downloads
7 (#1,316,802)

6 months
1 (#1,459,555)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references