作者
Vikas Menon, Susanta Kumar Padhy
发表日期
2020/4/28
期刊
Asian Journal of Psychiatry
卷号
51
页码范围
102116
出版商
Elsevier
简介
The unexpected and unprecedented challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted tremendous strain on health care resources, even in developed countries. The sheer magnitude of numbers coupled with high virulence of the infection has triggered country wide lockdowns across vast swathes of the globe. One group expected to work as usual in these trying times are health care workers and, therefore, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of frontline health care workers is gaining legitimate attention (Ayanian, 2020; Lai et al., 2020). In this regard, we point out a few moral and ethical dilemmas that can be faced by health care workers (HCW) while attending the call of duty:
1. Dilemma 1–How to balance my ethical duty to care for my patient against genuine concerns of contracting COVID-19 and spreading it to my family? These concerns are likely to be more pronounced among …
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