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cord-320811-9sm7iz5x	Harkin, Denis W.	Ethics for surgeons during the COVID-19 pandemic, review article	2020-06-08		.txt	text/plain	3529	180	45	Medical Ethics can guide us to make the best available choices for our patients during the Covid-19 pandemic, afterwards, we must emerge wiser having learnt lessons and rebuilding trust in surgical care. Surgeons worry that whilst our Healthcare efforts are correctly focused on increasing critical care capacity, infection control, and the multi-pronged strategies to defeat covid-19, the unintended harm caused by cancelled surgical treatment will become huge 3, 4 . Surgeons face unique specialty-specific challenges during this pandemic, including increased personal risk from intra-operative infection and the professional challenges of prioritisation of who receives the limited surgical care available. We discuss how medical ethics may guide surgeons, to do the right thing and get the best available result for their patients during and after this Covid-19 pandemic. Medical Ethics can guide us to make the best available choices for our patients during the Covid-19 pandemic.	./cache/cord-320811-9sm7iz5x.txt	./txt/cord-320811-9sm7iz5x.txt