Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and Physicians

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199005524 ISBN 13: 9780199005529

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

The third edition of Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and Physicians is a practical guide to analyzing and resolving the ethical dilemmas medical practitioners face on a day to day basis. Drawing extensively on real life scenarios, this book takes a case based approach to provide students and practitioners with the advice and skills they need to help their patients and overcome ethical challenges in the field. Fully revised to include up to date coverage of such important topics as patient practitioner relationships in the digital age and advances in reproductive medicine and reproductive technologies, this third edition of Doing Right will provide readers with the most up to date guidebook to medical ethics available.

About the Author:

Philip C. Hebert, Professor Emeritus, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Philip C. Hebert is emeritus professor of family medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and chair of the research ethics board at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. For twenty years he was a family physician at Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, retiring from active clinical practice in 2010. He remains on staff there as a consultant. He has an interest in many areas of ethics including disclosure, end-of-life care, consent, medical error, and medical education and teaches widely across Canada. In 2008, he received the second annual William Marsden Award from the CMA for his contribution to ethics teaching in Canada, and in 2011 he was named Academic Family Physician of the Year and received the University of Toronto's Department of Family and Community Medicine Award of Excellence.

Review:

"Practitioners aren't philosophers-they need to know the why and how of application. There are deliberate, usable, and considered methods throughout this book."
--Ken Kirkwood, Western University

"The reading style is very engaging and concise - far more palatable than some theoretically dense texts. The liberal use of case studies underscores the relevance to daily practice - something that medical students find very appealing."
--Stacy Ackroyd-Stolarz, Dalhousie University