title: Understanding doctors' ethical challenges as role virtue conflicts.
abstract: This paper argues that doctors' ethical challenges can be usefully conceptualised as role virtue conflicts. The hospital environment requires doctors to be simultaneously good doctors, good team members, good learners and good employees. I articulate a possible set of role virtues for each of these four roles, as a basis for a virtue ethics approach to analysing doctors' ethical challenges. Using one junior doctor's story, I argue that understanding doctors' ethical challenges as role virtue conflicts enables recognition of important moral considerations that are overlooked by other approaches to ethical analysis.
authors: Centre for Health and Society, Level 4 207 Bouverie St, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. rosjmcdougall@gmail.com
authors: Rosalind
authors: R
authors: McDougall
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004651:Employment / Q000941:ethics; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000941:ethics; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000941:ethics*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000941:ethics*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000941:ethics; D010819:Physician's Role; D014342:Truth Disclosure / Q000941:ethics*; D028722:Virtues