The Ethics of Place: Differences in Ethical Perspectives Among Urban, Suburban, and Rural Physicians in Georgia

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A discussion of the impact of geographic location (urban, suburban, rural) on the ethical decision-making process of physicians in Georgia. Organized into eight areas of comparison including payment and conflict of interest; access to care; boundary and dual role issues; patient autonomy issues; sociological and cultural differences; truth-telling and professionalism; stress and burnout; and ethics training/leadership. Includes rural-urban difference statistics for each area.

Mary Eleanor E. Wickersham, Jean Rawlings Sumner

Online Journal of Health Ethics, 11(2)

2015

Ethics · Physicians · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Georgia