- Chris Turner, consultant in emergency medicine
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
- chris.turner{at}uhcw.nhs.uk
Sokol discusses the General Medical Council’s guidance that doctors should treat patients and colleagues with kindness.1 Kindness is intrinsically prosocial; there cannot be many people who don’t believe that kindness is a good thing. But it isn’t a cut and dried concept.
In professional situations, where resources are tight and we are making decisions about allocation, we can be kind from one patient’s perspective while being callous or …