AMAV VICDOC SUMMER 2023 - Magazine - Page 20
PERSONAL PROTECTION
SHOULD DOCTORS
RISK THEIR LIVES
WHEN RESPONDING
TO A DISASTER?
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Medical professionals must weigh up their duty to
treat individual patients infected with COVID-19
with their duty to ensure they do not develop
COVID-19 themselves and become unable to
work or risk infecting other patients, staff or
those in the wider community.
REPORT DR ANDREW J MILLER
CHAIR, AMA FEDERAL ETHICS
AND MEDICO-LEGAL COMMITTEE
The current pandemic
has turned this potential
eventuality into a stark
reality for many doctors in
Australia and worldwide.