One hospital's attempt to create an institutional code of ethics.
Chaplain Linda Smith-Criddle, chair of the ethics committee at Riverside Hospital, Toledo, OH, was kind enough to share with the readers of Hospital Ethics the committee's final (sixth!) draft of a code of ethics [that it would hope will be adopted in toto] by the Hospital Medical Staff and Board of Trustees. With the committee's permission, the entire document is reprinted here, and we invite readers to review and critique the policy and to send any comments or suggestions to either Hospital Ethics or directly to Chaplain Smith-Criddle at Riverside Hospital, 1600 North Superior Street, Toledo, OH 43604.
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