Ethics Consult: Should Doctors Perform Genital Cutting on Girl?
email article Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true patient care case. You vote on your decision in the case and, next week, we'll reveal how you all made the call. Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, will also weigh in with an ethical framework to help you learn and prepare. The following case is loosely adapted from An 18-year-old girl from Ethiopia comes to a surgical clinic in the U.S., requesting that ritual female genital cutting be performed. She explains that her family is re...
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