Page 6 - Professional Boundaries And Moral Obligation
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Introduction
◦ Moral responsibilities for individual and collective action beyond the consultation.
◦ In medicine, obligations such as acting in patients' best interests (beneficence) or
avoiding harm (non-maleficence) are more stringent than general duties that all
people have to help others and avoid harming them.
◦ To be accountable or responsible for an action, two conditions must be met.
➢First, the person must have control over the act in question. The act must be
voluntary in that they desired to perform it or could have chosen to act otherwise.
➢Second, there is a knowledge condition: to be held responsible the person must
have had the relevant knowledge to act.
