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ArticleHEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues2024

Clinical Ethics Consultations and the Necessity of NOT Meeting Expectations: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

Stuart G Finder, Virginia L Bartlett

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Article in HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Case-Based Clinical Ethics Support - A Description and Normative Discussion of Methodological Issues from the Swedish Perspective.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2026
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Stuart G FinderDirector, Center for Healthcare Ethics, Professor of Surgery and of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 116 North Robertson Blvd, Suite 900D, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA. stuart.finder@cshs.org.ORCID 0000-0001-9197-8669
Virginia L BartlettAssistant Director, Center for Healthcare Ethics, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical ethics consultants (CECs) work in complex environments ripe with multiple types of expectations. Significantly, some are due to the perspectives of professional colleagues and the patients and families with whom CECs consult and concern how CECs can, do, or should function, thus adding to the moral complexity faced by CECs in those particular circumstances. We outline six such common expectations: Ethics Police, Ethics Equalizer, Ethics Superhero, Ethics Expediter, Ethics Healer or Ameliorator, and, finally, Ethics Expert. Framed by examples of requests for ethics consultation that illustrate each kind, along with brief descriptions, we argue that while these expectations ought to be resisted for clear and practical reasons, they also create opportunities for CECs to articulate, educate, and ultimately be responsible to the professional demands of clinical ethics work. Recognizing, acknowledging, and at times resisting those expectations thus become key activities and responsibilities in the performance of ethics consultation.

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Ethics ConsultationEthicistsEthics, ClinicalHumansClinical ethics consultationProfessional expectationProfessional responsibility

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PMID36125648
PMCPMC9486785

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