Ethical challenges for doctors working in immigration detention

Davies, Robert J

doi:10.5694/mja14.01456

Topics

Health services administration

Ethics and law

Neoplasms

Surgical procedures, operative

Global health

To the Editor: Sanggaran and colleagues starkly illustrate the ethical dilemmas of doctors contracted to an organisation delivering substandard medical care to asylum seekers.1 They pose the question of whether doctors should boycott the system.

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA.

Correspondence: rjdavies@iinet.net.au

Competing interests:

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1. Sanggaran J-P, Ferguson GM, Haire BG. Ethical challenges for doctors working in immigration detention. Med J Aust 2014; 201: 377-378. <MJA full text>
2. O'Leary C. I waited for a year on tests as cancer grew. The West Australian 2006; May 13.
3. American Medical Association. AMA Code of medical ethics. Opinion 2.03 – allocation of limited medical resources. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion203.page? (accessed Oct 2014).

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