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cord-294617-i8j36bol	Dhar, Shabir A	My fear, my morals: a surgeon’s perspective of the COVID crisis	2020-10-14		.txt	text/plain	1915	134	65	Initially the surgical specialties had a marginal role in the patient care, but as the timeline has expanded, the surgeon is being increasingly called upon to participate in this prolonged tussle [1] . Questions about the pandemic enforced surgical prioritization and the potential problems that the patient might face due to the delay, down the line, continue to challenge our ethical principles. The dominant view in ethics literature is that no individual health professional has a specific positive obligation to treat a patient when doing so places the professional at risk. As the authorities develop and change their policies especially regarding the management of COVID positive pregnant patients, our obstetric surgeons feel as if they are riding an emotional roller coaster. Ethics for surgeons during the COVID-19 pandemic; review article Your country needs you?' the ethics of allocating staff to high risk clinical roles in the management of patients with COVID-19	./cache/cord-294617-i8j36bol.txt	./txt/cord-294617-i8j36bol.txt