Becker's Healthcare April 26, 2024
COVID-19 has upended a long-standing belief that physicians must care for infectious disease patients, irrespective of their own personal risk, suggests research published April 24 in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A team led by researchers at Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health analyzed 187 studies that explored the ethical dilemma physicians face during novel infectious diseases outbreaks, including HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, COVID-19, Ebola and flu.
About 75% of research suggested physicians have an obligation to treat infectious patients, regardless of personal risks. This mindset was widely seen across papers published from the 1980s up until the COVID-19 pandemic.
“All the papers throughout history have shown that physicians broadly believed they should treat infectious disease patients,” lead author Braylee Grisel,...
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