General practitioner and Independent researcher.
New Bioeth. 2020 Jun;26(2):111-124. doi: 10.1080/20502877.2020.1775390. Epub 2020 Jun 27.
When doctors become aware of a threat to public health, they have a professional duty to try to mitigate the threat. Climate change is a recognized major threat to planetary and public health that requires actions to both mitigate, and adapt to, climate change. The limited time and resources available to change what humankind are doing and protect planetary health add urgency to the threat. Some doctors take non-violent direct actions if their governments fail to take the effective actions needed. Professional regulatory organizations like the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) are charged with protecting the health of patients by setting standards for, giving ethical advice about, and supervising the behaviour of doctors. This article examines the conflict between climate activist doctors and the GMC interpretation of a doctor's duty of care when there is threat to public health from climate change.
当医生意识到公共健康受到威胁时，他们有专业责任尽力减轻威胁。气候变化是对地球和公共健康的公认重大威胁，需要采取行动来减轻和适应气候变化。人类改变行为和保护地球健康的可用时间和资源有限，这使得威胁更加紧迫。如果政府未能采取必要的有效行动，一些医生会采取非暴力直接行动。像英国的医学总会（GMC）这样的专业监管组织负责通过制定医生的护理标准、提供道德建议和监督医生的行为来保护患者的健康。本文探讨了在气候变化对公共健康构成威胁时，气候活动家医生与 GMC 对医生护理责任的解释之间的冲突。
