title: Ethical problems in clinical practice.
abstract: Ethics is about judgment, which is rarely black and white. This paper highlights some of the ethical dilemmas that face practising clinicians in their everyday life and restates how useful the General Medical Council guidance is to make appropriate decisions. The authors have faced all eight of the clinical scenarios in this paper in their routine clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. Thomas.Downes@sth.nhs.uk
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Downes
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Channer
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic