Ethical considerations of the duty to care and physician safety in the COVID-19 pandemic

CJEM. 2020 Jul;22(4):407-410. doi: 10.1017/cem.2020.376.

Francis Bakewell^{1

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3}, Merril A Pauls^{3

4}, David Migneault^{3

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¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON.
² Medicine, Ethics, and Humanities Program, Department of Innovation in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.
³ CAEP Bioethics Committee.
⁴ Health Sciences Centre, Max Rady College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
⁵ Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
⁶ BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
⁷ UBC Urgent Care Centre, Vancouver, BC.
⁸ Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC.
⁹ UBC Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Ethical obligations; pandemic; physician safety.

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