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Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and Physicians

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I bought this book in preparation for interviews with medical schools (and interview styles - MMI) that put a large emphasis on character and professional ethics.

I have not been at all disappointed in the book. It goes into detail about a practical, yet not mechanical, approach to navigating through the grey matters that come with a career in medicine. It also gives many examples of (I believe) real cases of potential ethical quandries and gives a preposed choice and why the author deems that choice as an ethical one, acknowledging the fact that there are other choices that could be made and reasonably defended. The author encourages the reader to make his/her own choices and to go through the active process of ethical reasoning, with no expectation of a single "right" answer.

The writing style is easy to understand and feels more like a conversation than more academic alternatives (philosphy of ethics books for instance).

I definietly recommend this book.