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Health-care consultation is a common phenomenon that comes in many forms and shapes. In US hospitals, everyday consultation scenarios concern medical, ethical, psychiatric, social, or legal issues. Outside hospitals, consultations may involve public polls about health-care legislation or private companies’ assessments of health-related situations.
This entry examines why health-care consultation formats differ and which ethical challenges arise in consultation contexts in both local and global settings. While the concept of consultation seems obvious and simple, the specifics of consultation practices are complex. Aside from differences in outline and goal, consultation processes vary due to differences in nature, location, resources, discipline, and culture.
In search for common features of health-care consulting, the question is if there is a particular format that should be used for consultation. This entry illustrates that many aspects of consultation are controversial. What consultations should look like is therefore debatable, especially in a common global context.
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Eijkholt, M. (2015). Consultation. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_122-1
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