‘E’ Is For Ethics and Ethical Dilemmas

  Have you come across real life ethical dilemmas around brain injury? Maybe you have found yourself facing an ethical challenge? This week I had been thinking a lot about an ethical dilemma posed at the end of a stunning presentation at a brain injury conference some time in the 1990's. The paper was presented by Rabbi Dr Milton Pine  describing his experience of brain injury. At the close of his presentation he said: "if you are going to make us live, don't bury us alive". This powerful statement has stuck in my mind since that time.  I believe it highlights an ethical dilemma around brain injury. The cost of emergency and acute care for a person, compared with what is provided for life long living, and community care. An ethical dilemma we could all  think more about. I then decided to focus on ethics and ethical dilemmas about brain injury for this article. Unfortunately when I started thinking, researching, writing, revising.…

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