Emergency care in rural settings: Can doctors be ethical and survive?

A Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Humanities. Published since 1993 by Forum for Medical Ethics Society.
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ISSN: 0975-5691 (Online); 0974-8466 (Print) RNI Reg No. MAHENG/2016/67188


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1.	Title	Title of document	Emergency care in rural settings: Can doctors be ethical and survive?

2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Himmatrao Saluba Bawaskar; Bawaskar Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Mahad, Raigad 402 301, India

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4.	Description	Abstract	We describe below the pressures of running a small private hospital in an underserved rural area, while providing emergency healthcare for victims of poisonous stings, accidents, and other acute health conditions. Both ethics and law demand that payment is not asked for upfront in emergency cases. Yet patients and their families often fail to pay normal dues for months or even years. It is disturbing to encounter such behaviour even in villages; and doctors in small communities are easy prey. In these conditions can one be true to ethical principles and ensure one's own survival?

5.	Publisher	Organizing agency, location	Forum for Medical Ethics Society

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7.	Date	(YYYY-MM-DD)	2018-05-03

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10.	Identifier	Uniform Resource Identifier	https://ijme.in/articles/emergency-care-in-rural-settings-can-doctors-be-ethical-and-survive/

11.	Source	Title; vol., no. (year)	Indian Journal of Medical Ethics;: Anticipating new frontiers

12.	Language	English=en	en

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