Painful Ethical Choices in 2020 vs. 2010: How Has Thinking Changed?

November 20, 2020

(Medscape) – Much has changed in the 10 years since Medscape’s first survey on what physicians would do when faced with painful choices in patient care. A new report, Ethics 2020: Life, Death, and Painful Dilemmas, shows that physicians’ value judgments have shifted in many respects, sometimes as a result of increased regulations and fears of litigation.