Are you facing an ethical problem in your work as a physician or nurse? Are you confronted with a conflict of values and are you having difficulty pursuing the care plan with your patient or that patient's family? Are you confronted with a general ethical problem that requires an institutional opini
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Who to contact? We recommend that, if you have any questions or difficulties during your treatment at the CHUV, you first contact the medical or nursing team that is taking care of you or your relative. They will help you trying to resolve them. If you are unable to resolve the issue with the treatm
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Which situations? We are here to help you get a clearer vision when you are confronted with an ethical problem. But what are examples of ethical issues? Here are some exemplary questions we address: As a patient, I don't agree with the treatment plan the medical team is proposing, and I don't know h
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Clinical Ethics Ethics in healthcare is about analyzing and resolving conflicts or tensions between competing values or rights. If you encounter such tensions as a professional or during your hospital stay as a patient, our teams in the Clinical Ethics Unit or the Clinical Ethics Committee are at yo
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Ethics in health care is about analyzing and resolving conflicts or tensions between competing values or rights. If you face such tensions as a professional or during your hospital stay as a patient, the teams in the Clinical Ethics Unit or Clinical Ethics Committee are available to help. Clinical E
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Clinical Ethics Committee This committee deals with ethical issues that concern the CHUV as an institution or that require a general recommendation. For example, it has dealt with: the revision of the institutional policy on assisted suicide the implementation of advance directives (directives writt
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Members Prof. Philippe Conus (president) Isabelle Guisan (vice presidente) Muriel Baudraz Dr. Malik Benmachiche Prof. Pierre-Yves Brandt Dr. Antonella Cavaleri Maya Hélène Chenin Bernasconi Prof. Silke Grabherr Layla Harbi Dr. Fabrice Herrera Prof. Ralf Jox Françoise Maillefer Laurent Messina Estell
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Opinions of the Clinical Ethics Committee The CHUV Clinical Ethics Committee is responsible for ethical issues that affect the institutional level or require a general recommendation. For example, it has dealt with the revision of the institutional guideline on assisted suicide, advanced directives,
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Continuing Education Our continuing education courses are primarily targeted at CHUV clinical staff. However, together with the Centre de formation of the CHUV , we also organize training courses on clinical ethics, which are also open to external professionals. For more information on the clinical
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Members Prof. Ralf Jox, Head of Clinical Ethics Unit Dr. Fleur Le Bourgeois, clinical ethicist Dr. Daniela Ritzenthaler, clinical ethicist Dr. Rachel Rutz Voumard, clinical ethicist Dr. Kristina Würth, clinical ethicist
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