The Responses of Medical General Practitioners to Unreasonable Patient Demand for Antibiotics
Sylvie Delacroix - A Study of Medical Ethics Using Immersive Virtual Reality
18 February 2016
Dealing with insistent patient demand for antibiotics is an all too common part of a General Practitioner’s daily routine. This study explores the extent to which portable Immersive Virtual Reality technology can help us gain an accurate understanding of the factors that influence a doctor’s response to the ethical challenge underlying such tenacious requests for antibiotics (given the threat posed by growing anti-bacterial resistance worldwide). It also considers the potential of such technology to train doctors to face such dilemmas.
- Published in Plos One.
About the author
- Sylvie Delacroix is a Reader in Legal Theory and Ethics.