En förtjänt patient? Moraliska bedömningar i sjukvården

Doctors are expected to serve the patient in an unbiased and medically accurate
manner. Yet, this does not prevent doctors and other medical staff from
having pronounced views on whether the patient deserves care. Based on
field notes from a cardiology clinic, this contradiction is discussed and analyzed.
In directing the spotlight on what circumstances are pointed out by the
staff when discussing patients, the analysis shows how patients are presented
as more or less deserving of care. Furthermore, it is argued that observational
studies of everyday situations should complement vignette studies. A situational
perspective shows that moral judgments are constructed in interaction with
others and that individual characteristics can not easily be linked with certain
types of judgments and decisions.