Saturday Morning in the Clinic

摘要

[...] it helps consultants to figure out why the ethics consultation was requested in the first place, as well as to understand the details of the situation. [...] the conversation it prompts with the primary participants - patient, family, physicians, nurses - is the only way to elicit what they find "troubling and in need of resolution, and therefore what aftermaths they can live with in the light of what is most worthwhile to, and for, them." [...] it allows one the space to remember that we are invited to intervene in this clinical space so that we might be, in some sense, helpful - and not necessarily because we bring with us all the "right" answers.