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Junior doctors and moral exploitation.

Joshua Parker¹

¹Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK.

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|July 18, 2019

Summary

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Junior doctors face moral exploitation due to their vulnerability, leading them to shoulder excessive moral burdens. This exploitation, stemming from systemic issues and hierarchical pressures, can be morally wrong.

Keywords:

applied and professional ethics clinical ethics ethics general medicine / internal medicine health workforce

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Area of Science:

Medical Ethics
Healthcare Professionalism

Background:

Junior doctors occupy a vulnerable position within healthcare systems.
Their roles and responsibilities can inadvertently expose them to undue moral burdens.

Purpose of the Study:

To define and explore the concept of moral exploitation in the context of junior doctors.
To identify the specific ways junior doctors experience moral exploitation.
To analyze whether and how this exploitation is morally wrong.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis building on existing ethical frameworks.
Examination of the structural and relational factors affecting junior doctors.

Main Results:

Junior doctors are morally exploited through hierarchical pressures, staffing shortages, and systemic offloading of moral burdens.
Vulnerability, inherent in their roles, is leveraged to impose additional moral responsibilities and emotional labor.
Three types of moral exploitation are identified: direct, common (due to rota gaps), and structural.

Conclusions:

Junior doctors are subject to various forms of moral exploitation.
The vulnerability associated with junior roles facilitates this exploitation.
Further ethical analysis is needed to determine when moral exploitation of junior doctors is wrongful.