The touchstone questions—the last step of the touchstone process—play a central role in informal ethical discourse, clinical decision-making, and health professionals’ communication with other health professionals and with patients and families. As we will see, the touchstone questions engage the whole person, and it is as whole persons that clinicians confront the ethical challenges and problems presented by their clinical work.

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Informal Ethical Discourse and the Touchstone Questions

  • Stephen Scher,
  • Kasia Kozlowska

摘要

The touchstone questions—the last step of the touchstone process—play a central role in informal ethical discourse, clinical decision-making, and health professionals’ communication with other health professionals and with patients and families. As we will see, the touchstone questions engage the whole person, and it is as whole persons that clinicians confront the ethical challenges and problems presented by their clinical work.