Needs to address clinicians' moral distress in treating unvaccinated COVID-19 patients.
Robert L KlitzmanPublished in: BMC medical ethics (2022)
Unvaccinated COVID patients should receive care, but multi-level strategies, involving enhanced policies, education and practice are vital to alleviate ensuing moral distress, and thus aid these clinicians and their patients. Ethical arguments that providers must treat these patients have not considered these obligations' effects on clinicians, but should do so.