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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Ethics
    • Clinical Decision-Making
    • Healthcare Professionalism

    Background:

    • Patient values and choices can conflict with healthcare providers' professional integrity.
    • Healthcare teams increasingly encounter requests for care deemed inappropriate, particularly in end-of-life decisions.
    • Existing professional standards are insufficient for addressing ethical conflicts from a purely ethical standpoint.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore a framework for addressing conflicts between physicians' professional integrity and patients' values.
    • To examine how to navigate ethical challenges in clinical decision-making.
    • To propose an inclusive understanding of professional integrity.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of a paradigmatic clinical ethics consultation case.
    • Exploration of the concept of professional integrity in healthcare.
    • Ethical examination of patient-provider value clashes.

    Main Results:

    • Professional integrity should be understood inclusively, not just through professional standards.
    • An inclusive view integrates professional, contextual, and personal values.
    • Patients' values retain legitimacy even when conflicting with physicians' integrity.

    Conclusions:

    • An inclusive understanding of professional integrity can facilitate constructive decision-making.
    • This approach helps resolve conflicts between doctors' integrity and patients' values.
    • It emphasizes the interconnectedness of professional, contextual, and personal values in ethical practice.