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. 2024 Dec 24;17:15. doi: 10.18502/jmehm.v17i15.18667

Table 1.

Stakeholders and their moral values

Stakeholders Moral Values
The Physician Maintaining a job (if it matters to her); the right to independence and autonomy (freedom to choose a job); the right to professional success and progress; performing the duty of treating patients; maintaining personal health; maintaining family life
The spouse and family of this female physician Her management of house and family affairs (affected by reduction of the time spent at home, leading to dissatisfaction on the side of her spouse and children); maintaining her health and even saving her life (as a mother and spouse, she holds a job that has affected the health or life of family members); anxiety due to illness or even death of a family member
The hospital emergency ward Benefiting from the services of a female physician; treating patients
The physician’s colleagues The burden of her duties falling on her colleagues until another physician replaces her
The health-care system Expecting her to meet the society’s medical care needs, since she has been trained for many years to meet such needs
COVID-19 patients Health; treating disease; patient life