Dual loyalty (ethics)

In ethics, dual loyalty is loyalty to two separate interests that potentially entails a conflict of interest.

[1]A frequently cited example of the term "dual loyalty" is used in connection with physicians who must balance, on the one hand, the physician's loyalty to a patient (and/or the regulations that govern the physician-patient relationship), and on the other hand, the institution or country for which the physician serves.

For example, a doctor who is asked by a government to assess a prisoner's fitness to withstand torture faces an enormous ethical dilemma because of the competing loyalties of the doctor to the state versus the physician's code of ethics and his/her commitment to a patient's human rights.

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References

  1. ↑ Gramma, Rodica; Hanganu, Bianca; Arnaut, Oleg; Ioan, Beatrice Gabriela (2023-09-04). "Potential Conflicts of Interest Arising from Dualism of Loyalty Imposed on Employees of Medical Institutions—Findings and Tools for Ethics Management". Medicina. 59 (9): 1598. doi:10.3390/medicina59091598. ISSN 1648-9144. PMC 10536397. PMID 37763717.


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