Patient Rights: An Ethical Perspective Against the Backdrop of a Pandemic
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This chapter discusses two ethical questions regarding rights within health care and the right to health care in the context of a pandemic: First, given that it may not be possible to fulfil all patient rights because of a pandemic, is there a method for deciding how to prioritise rights, from an ethics perspective? Second, is it ethically permissible not to provide for a right to an elective health care service in the context of a pandemic? The chapter discusses Beauchamp and Childressâ Constrain Balancing, supplemented with DeMarcoâs Mutuality Principle, as a framework for prioritising patient rights and addressing the issue of potential value neglect in the context of a pandemic.