Ethics: all about values

Helen Manson
Dr Helen Manson explains why an ethical approach to a patient's care involves exploring the values underlying the clinical consultation.

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Dr Helen Manson
Medico-legal adviser

MBChB MRCGP Helen is a medico-legal adviser at the MDU. Helen has worked in a variety of roles as a GP, and has a Fellowship in Medical Ethics from Harvard Medical School and an academic background in medical ethics education, designing and teaching ethics and law programmes both for the East of Scotland GP Deanery and Dundee Medical School. She also developed a new framework for assessing complex ethical cases for medical and nursing students, now also used in GP training.