What is an ethics consult?
Making decisions amid all the complexities of modern medicine is not easy. Ethical questions can arise when a patient has lost the capacity to make decisions, when it is not clear whether the burdens of a treatment are worth the expected benefits, or when values appear to conflict. The Ethics Consult is an advisory service that is designed to assist patients, families and all health care professionals in identifying, analyzing and resolving ethical dilemmas. No fees are charged for this service and all consults are kept strictly confidential. How does one request a consult? Each Hospital Ethics Committee and its sub-committee may be accessed 24 hours a day by calling the Hospital’s page operator and asking the page operator to page the designated team leader (or alternate) of the on-call case review team. Every member welcomes any questions or requests for informal discussion of clinical ethics at any time. A number of members of these committees have formal training in clinical ethics
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