title: Suffering, compassion and 'doing good medical ethics'.
abstract: 'Doing good medical ethics' involves attending to both the biomedical and existential aspects of illness. For this, we need to bring in a phenomenological perspective to the clinical encounter, adopt a virtue-based ethic and resolve to re-evaluate the goals of medicine, in particular the alleviation of suffering and the role of compassion in everyday ethics.
authors.forename: Paquita C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: de Zulueta
mesh_terms: D004645:Empathy / Q000941:ethics*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D010146:Pain / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D050497:Stillbirth / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Clinical Ethics; Human Dignity; Moral Psychology; Philosophy of the Health Professions