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PHT402

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  • Lectures
    • 1. Basic principles of ethics
    • 2. Ethical dilemmas
    • 3. Empathy
    • 4. Professional practice
    • 5. Moral judgement and distress
    • 6. Meaningful life and death
    • 7. Euthanasia and abortion
    • 8. Human rights
    • 9. Resource allocation
    • 10. Ethics in research
    • 11. Sexual harassment
    • 12. Ethics in sport
    • 13. Substance abuse
    • 14. Whistleblowing
    • 15. Family violence
  • Topics
    • Morality and ethics
    • Human rights
    • Basic principles of ethics
    • Ethics and professionalism
    • Meaningful life and death
      • Terminal illness
      • Dealing with death
      • Abortion
      • Suicide and Assisted suicide
    • Resource allocation
    • Ethics in sport
    • Integrity and wrongdoing
      • Substance abuse
      • Whistle blowing
      • Fraud
    • Integrity in research
    • Mental health
    • Sexual harassment
    • Abuse
  • Assignment
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Author: Agatha Jordaan

September 16, 2019September 26, 2019Term 3 (2019)

Non-Maleficence in the clinical setting

During one of my clinical blocks in my 4th year of physiotherapy, I was faced with a very difficult case. The patient was […]

May 23, 2019June 5, 2019Term 2 (2019)

How do we decide who gets to benefit from physiotherapy rehabilitation? (Resource allocation)

Stroke (cerebro vascular accident, CVA) patients often need a lot of rehabilitation even when they as discharged from the hospital. The goals […]

March 4, 2019March 21, 2019Term 1 (2019)

She wanted to be seen by a Professional…

  One afternoon a patient came for her physiotherapy appointment and she was referred from the doctor for an intercostal muscle strain. […]

November 8, 2018March 8, 2019Assignment (2018)

Too much empathy led to me having much less

The above images has a triptych affect, meaning the arrangements of the three panels of art which is joined together, ultimately forms […]

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