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Tanya Egodage1, Jay Doucet2, Purvi Pravinchandra Patel3,4
1Surgery, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Abstract:
The primary ethical principle guiding general medical practice is autonomy. However, in mass casualty (MASCAL) or disaster scenarios, the principles of beneficence and justice become of foremost concern. Despite multiple reviews, publications, and training courses available to prepare for a MASCAL incident, a minority of physicians and healthcare providers are abreast of these. In this review, we describe several MASCAL scenarios and their associated ethical, moral, and medicolegal quandaries in attempts to curb potential future misadventures.
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