28
May
2019
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15:49
Asia/Singapore

Three virtues to help doctors navigate ethical questions and not be too defensive

Gabriel Wong, Year 4 student at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and Dr Philip Yap, Senior Consultant at the Dept of Geriatric Medicine and Director of Geriatric Centre at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital discussed the virtues of prudence, fortitude and temperance which can complement conventional medical ethics and make their execution more effective by equipping doctors with the qualities that enable them to realise the good they want to do.