Abstract
Staff reported paranormal experiences in connection with the outpatient Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) room at the hospital. This case study reports on staff experiences and illustrates how the Ethics team’s role expanded to deal with this novel situation by facilitating an interdisciplinary response.
Highlights
Owing to the new knowledge obtained from medical studies and the diversity of lifestyles, and moral and religious values in modern societies, medical involvement and decision-making processes associated with healthcare are becoming more and more complicated
A healthcare ethics committee or hospital ethics committee is characterized as a body of persons established by a hospital or health care institution and assigned to consider, debate, study, take action on, or report on ethical issues that arise in patient care [7]
History and development of hospital ethics committees Of the documented literatures published on the history of HECs in different countries, 22 belong to western countries and began around 1985 [5, 7, 9, 13, 14, 18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33]
Summary
Owing to the new knowledge obtained from medical studies and the diversity of lifestyles, and moral and religious values in modern societies, medical involvement and decision-making processes associated with healthcare are becoming more and more complicated.
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