Safe, effective healthcare has an ethical heart. But advocacy for ethical care and conduct can exact a heavy toll on physicians. Drawing on his extensive clinical and governance experience, emergency physician Dr Stephen Parnis will defend the right of doctors and healthcare professionals to go beyond the platitudes, and act according to their consciences. How can we form and nurture the consciences of healthcare professionals as pressure from employers, regulators, governments and interest groups grows? And what principles can best help medical students and trainees become ethical clinicians?

Presenter: Dr Stephen Parnis MBBS PGDipSurgAnat FACEM FAICD FAMA is a Senior Emergency Physician at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and the Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital. He is a former Vice President of the Australian Medical Association, Honorary Clinical Fellow of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics, and an advocate and advisor on health policy and medical ethics for over two decades.

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