Oh Well, That’s Life…. – MM1310
Bioethics is about the rightness and wrongness of how we, as health care professionals, treat our fellow-beings, especially those who entrust
their medical care to us. As a paediatrician who has been involved with newborns for most of my career, it is essential to decide when my patient
has attained the status of a fellow-being. Most discussions of “when does life begin” are hugely philosophical but there are important practical and pragmatic reasons that need to be addressed. Hence, the subject needs to be aired and our
views challenged at all levels.
Modern Medicine – October 2013
