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Activity Description

Workshop on Military Medical Ethics: Issues Regarding Dual Loyalties

The workshop examined the ethical challenges for physicians and other health professionals serving in the military that arise from conflicts between their responsibilities to patients and their duties as military officers.

Questions discussed at the workshop:

• Are there situations in which military medical ethics differ from the ethics of civilian medical practice? If such situations exist, how do the obligations of a military officer and a military health professional differ?
• What other models could be used to examine these conflicts?
• How do existing national and international standards of medical ethics apply to military physicians, and what is their relationship to national and international law?
• What are the ethical principles that guide medical practice for military physicians? Do these principles differ from those of the broader medical community?