Newnham H
School of Nursing, Edith Cowan University, WA.
Contemp Nurse. 1998 Mar;7(1):42-7. doi: 10.5172/conu.1998.7.1.42.
Should health professionals act legally or ethically in the delivery of health care presuming it is impossible to do both? There is a tendency by some to take the position that to act ethically is more important in the provision of health care and to ignore or at least minimise any legal consequences that may arise. At the same time the law may ignore ethical principles claiming the legal position is more important. This article argues that while law and ethics are both important in the delivery of health care the law as the final arbitrator takes precedence.
在提供医疗保健时，如果认为无法兼顾合法与合乎伦理，医疗专业人员应该依法行事还是依伦理行事？有些人倾向于认为，在提供医疗保健方面，依伦理行事更为重要，而忽视或至少尽量减少可能产生的任何法律后果。与此同时，法律可能会忽视伦理原则，声称法律立场更为重要。本文认为，虽然法律和伦理在提供医疗保健方面都很重要，但作为最终仲裁者的法律具有优先地位。
