Medical Ethics  Tags: ugl_subject_guide medical_ethics bioethics ugl  

Every day hospitals are forced to make life and death decisions in cases where there is no clear right of wrong answer. Often these decisions must be made without time to contemplate their ethical implications, but the circumstances surrounding each case are often unique and morally ambiguous and the decisions can be held to intense public scrutiny. For this reason, medical ethics is an important area of study and it is important to be familiar, not just with the issues at hand, but how decisions are made behind-the scenes.