Abstract
Bioethics Mediation in Health Care Settings: An Innovative Approach to Shaping Shared Solutions in Ethics Disputes
Highlights
Scientific and technological medical achievements and the prolongation of human life cause many inconvenient situations which break down the relationship between physicians and patients
Due to the complexity of clinical practice, conflict is everywhere and every time in clinical medicine and between physicians and patients and with providers, administration, payers, and beyond. it has been suggested that moral puzzlements and bioethics conflicts which arise in life and death decisions are really more of a disagreement
Bioethics mediation is a novel approach for resolving ethical dilemmas which could arise in the daily clinical setting or health care institutions
Summary
Scientific and technological medical achievements and the prolongation of human life cause many inconvenient situations which break down the relationship between physicians and patients. Bioethics mediation is a novel approach for resolving ethical dilemmas which could arise in the daily clinical setting or health care institutions It uses skills of dispute resolution, emotional intelligence, interpersonal communication and active listening in order to resolve agreements among caregivers, patients and families. The bioethics mediators should be familiar with the code of medical ethics, with the principles of bioethics as beneficence, non-maleficence, patients’ autonomy and social justice, with clinical realities and the knowledge of the attitude and situation of both parties (patients and clinicians). This leads to the fact that bioethics mediator usually could be professionals, members of ethics committees in medical institutional, bioethicists, social workers and medical consultants. The above qualifications are acquired after an intense bioethics mediation training program in order that the bioethics mediators be effective to manage conflicts which are caused from communication breakdowns, cultural differences, disparate value systems and ethical dilemmas
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