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What the ‘moral distress’ of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care

  • Written by Daniel T. Kim, Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Albany Medical College

I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions.

Consider a typical case: A 6-month-old child has suffered a severe brain injury following cardiac arrest. A tracheostomy, ventilator and feeding tube are the only treatments keeping him alive. These...

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