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

Doing Right is a brief and practical introduction to medical ethics for physicians and medical trainees (students, interns, residents). It eschews most jargon and instead concentrates on the concepts, issues and ethical-legal precedents that health care practitioners in Canada need to be familiar with to practice medicine in an acceptable way. The book uses many real-life cases -- some simple, some challenging -- that will help illustrate the application of modern ethics to everyday practice. Professionals in other health disciplines may find this bo useful as the key issues discussed are often faced by them as well.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195411048
• ISBN13: 9780195411041
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Incredibly helpful for aspiring physician

I purchased this book to prepare for medical school MMI interviews, and also to prepare me for a career as a physician in general. The book is written by a Canadian, so emphasizes more policies relative to Canadian healthcare, but still discusses relevant US policy at times. More importantly, it focuses on the philosophy of healthcare principles, but every single chapter contains several real life examples worked out by the author with advice based on those principles. Very intriguing read, not boring at all. Would recommend to anyone pursuing medical school!

Great practical guide to ethical reasoning in the medical context.

I bought this book in preparation for interviews with medical schools (and interview styles - MMI) that put a large emphasis on character and professional ethics. I have not been at all disappointed in the book. It goes into detail about a practical, yet not mechanical, approach to navigating through the grey matters that come with a career in medicine. It also gives many examples of (I believe) real cases of potential ethical quandries and gives a preposed choice and why the author deems that choice as an ethical one, acknowledging the fact that there are other choices that could be made and reasonably defended. The author encourages the reader to make his/her own choices and to go through the active process of ethical reasoning, with no expectation of a single "right" answer. The writing style is easy to understand and feels more like a conversation than more academic alternatives (philosphy of ethics books for instance). I definietly recommend this book.