Clinical Ethics Unit This unit responds to any ethical problem that you may encounter as a patient, family member or health care professional with regard to care provision. It deals with any individual care situation (unlike the Clinical Ethics Committee that treats institutional issues), involving
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Research in Medical and Health Care Ethics Research in medical and health care ethics addresses substantive and value-related questions that arise in relation to medicine and our contemporary health care system. It addresses these questions using a variety of methods (conceptual and normative analys
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Are you facing an ethical problem in your work as a physician or nurse? Are you confronted with a conflict of values and are you having difficulty pursuing the care plan with your patient or that patient's family? Are you confronted with a general ethical problem that requires an institutional opini
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Who to contact? We recommend that, if you have any questions or difficulties during your treatment at the CHUV, you first contact the medical or nursing team that is taking care of you or your relative. They will help you trying to resolve them. If you are unable to resolve the issue with the treatm
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Which situations? We are here to help you get a clearer vision when you are confronted with an ethical problem. But what are examples of ethical issues? Here are some exemplary questions we address: As a patient, I don't agree with the treatment plan the medical team is proposing, and I don't know h
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Clinical Ethics Ethics in healthcare is about analyzing and resolving conflicts or tensions between competing values or rights. If you encounter such tensions as a professional or during your hospital stay as a patient, our teams in the Clinical Ethics Unit or the Clinical Ethics Committee are at yo
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Ethics in health care is about analyzing and resolving conflicts or tensions between competing values or rights. If you face such tensions as a professional or during your hospital stay as a patient, the teams in the Clinical Ethics Unit or Clinical Ethics Committee are available to help. Clinical E
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Clinical Ethics Committee This committee deals with ethical issues that concern the CHUV as an institution or that require a general recommendation. For example, it has dealt with: the revision of the institutional policy on assisted suicide the implementation of advance directives (directives writt
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Members Prof. Philippe Conus (president) Isabelle Guisan (vice presidente) Muriel Baudraz Dr. Malik Benmachiche Prof. Pierre-Yves Brandt Dr. Antonella Cavaleri Maya Hélène Chenin Bernasconi Prof. Silke Grabherr Layla Harbi Dr. Fabrice Herrera Prof. Ralf Jox Françoise Maillefer Laurent Messina Estell
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