The ethical implications when physicians’ roles merge

A presentation given to the bioethics committee, Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL.

My presentation today is about the challenge, professionally and emotionally created by certain external forces, which encompasses bioethical issues when one’s roles merge.

I am privileged and blessed to have many roles in my life: physician, wife, daughter, mother, now grandmother, sister, aunt, friend, and colleague.  At times, these roles blend, other times, they are murky and can cause intense …

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