Circumcision, patient trackers and torture: my job in medical ethics; The Guardian, April 8, 2019

Julian Sheather, The Guardian; Circumcision, patient trackers and torture: my job in medical ethics

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Modern healthcare is full of ethical problems. Some are intensely practical, such as whether we can withdraw a feeding tube from a patient in a vegetative state who could go on living for many years, or whether a GP should give a police officer access to patient records following a local rape. 

Others are more speculative and future-oriented: will robots become carers, and would that be a bad thing? And then there are the political questions, like whether the Home Office should have access to patient records. My job is to advise the British Medical Association on how we navigate these issues and make sure the theory works in practice for patients and healthcare professionals."