Answers to your ethical puzzles

On 9 November,2016 | In Features

FreeVector-Thinker‘Business Dilemmas’Dr Nicola Lennard

Worries about a colleague and the potential for a patient’s condition to result in complications are the drivers behind two more readers’ questions to Dr Nicola Lennard (right).

 

Dilemma 1

What do I do with testy colleague?

Q I am a consultant surgeon and have become increasingly concerned about the behaviour of a consultant gastro­-enterology colleague of mine, whom I work with  regularly.

She seems to be becoming increasingly irritable and somewhat distracted.

I’ve also overheard endoscopy staff commenting on her unpredictability and she recently made a prescribing error for a patient whom we were both treating under a shared-care arrangement.

What should I do?

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