title: Impairing loyalty: corporate responsibility for clinical misadventure.
abstract: A medical device manufacturer pays a surgeon to demonstrate a novel medical instrument in a live broadcast to an audience of specialists in another city. The surgical patient is unaware of the broadcast and unaware of the doctor's relationship with the manufacturer. It turns out that the patient required a different surgical approach to her condition-one that would not have allowed a demonstration of the instrument--and she later dies. The paper is an exploration of whether the manufacturer shares, along with the doctor, responsibility for the death of the patient. Three arguments for corporate responsibility are considered; two are criticized and the third is offered as sound.
authors: Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. kkipnis@hawaii.edu
authors: Kenneth
authors: K
authors: Kipnis
mesh_terms: D000574:American Medical Association; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000941:ethics; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006625:Hippocratic Oath; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations / Q000941:ethics; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008875:Middle Aged; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D011362:Professional Corporations / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013663:Teaching; D035502:Trust; D014481:United States; D014743:Videotape Recording