ethical duty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofethicalandduty
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ethical
adjective
uk/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/
relating to beliefs about what is morally right ...
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duty
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈdʒuː.ti/us/ˈduː.t̬i/
something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing ...
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(Definition ofethicalanddutyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theethicaldutyof the hospital is less clear.
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Every physician has a fiduciary andethicaldutyto protect patients.
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Yes, theethicaldutyto take care of our patients is supreme.
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Rather, it creates anethicaldutyto challenge the conditions that render the environment hostile to good patient care.
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So the prescriber clearly has anethicaldutyto consider carefully any harmful effects that the prescribed medication may have.
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In our ambition to represent the employer, we must not forget ourethicaldutytowards the people who are depending on the services.
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From the perspective of professional duties and responsibilities, a primaryethicaldutyis to respect the dignity of patients by promoting their best interests.
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Is medical treatment in such settings anethicaldutyor an act of complicity when successful, even life-saving therapeutic intervention enables the torturer to resume his efforts?
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All health care workers have an overridingethicaldutyto protect the health and safety of their patients.
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Then the medical practitioner would be in breach of hisethicaldutyto his patient if he supplied the report.
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A medical practitioner is under a legal andethicaldutyto respect the confidence of his patient.
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Is it not anethicaldutyto provide a service for those who become ill through that legal drug?
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They do discuss in general terms, however, physicians'ethicaldutyto respect other persons, to faithfully discharge any fiduciary responsibility, to be truthful, and to provide effective supervision to trainees.
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We owe that to the people, because it is our duty to alleviate human suffering; it is ourethicaldutyand it is in our long-term interest.
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It is clearly the professional andethicaldutyof every doctor and nurse to take precautions against mistakes, and, of course, it is accepted as such.
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Lawyers are officers of the court and have anethicaldutyto act properly, but their main and central duty must be the client they represent.
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However, a moral orethicaldutyto rescue may exist even where there is no legal duty to rescue.
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It is theethicaldutyof counsel to provide the court with the available material evidence, whether it helps the prosecution or whether it points in the opposite direction.
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On the one hand, ethical extensionism is a broadening of the class of things to which humans may owe anethicalduty.
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By the same token subordinates and other stakeholders have anethicaldutyto speak out against the decisions of supervisors when consequences of these decisions are likely to be serious.
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