Ethics Issues Related to Access to Care in Rural Communities
with Host, Amanda Porter and special guest speakers:
Tara Rutherford, Health Services Manager, Musquodoboit Valley Memorial Hospital
Roberta Duschene, Director of Rural and Community Sites, Central Zone, Halifax
Discussion Questions
- How might community engagement in the recruitment process of new physicians contribute to sustain access to health care in rural communities?
- Can you think of ways to engage community members in approaches that can help sustain access to care in rural communities where there is no on-site physician available?
- In your opinion, what is a reasonable expectation about how far you might need to travel to access some forms of care? (Such as, for example, emergency care)
- If you had, for example, one part-time primary care physician covering an entire zone, what kind of service would you think should be prioritized?” What do you think?
Resources:
Simpson, C. and McDonald, F. (2017) Rural Health Ethics. Springer 2017 http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319608099
Szumer, R.T.O., Arnold, M. The Ethics of Overlapping Relationships in Rural and Remote Healthcare. A Narrative Review. Bioethical Inquiry 20, 181–190 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10243-w

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