Protest of doctors: A basic human right or an ethical dilemma

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Abbasi, Imran Naeem ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Brain drain; Doctors' strikes; Ethical dilemma; Lack of security; Low pay; Pakistan; Service structure; Socialized medicine; Utilitarian theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PAKISTAN; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TRADE UNION;

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCRATIC OATH; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PAKISTAN; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STRIKES, EMPLOYEE;

EID: 84899077136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-15-24     Document Type: Review

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