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cord-324387-mnucvmr1	Dunn, Michael	‘Your country needs you’: the ethics of allocating staff to high-risk clinical roles in the management of patients with COVID-19	2020-05-14		.txt	text/plain	4753	207	49	title: 'Your country needs you': the ethics of allocating staff to high-risk clinical roles in the management of patients with COVID-19 In line with a dominant view in the medical ethics literature, we claim, first, that no individual health professional has a specific, positive obligation to treat a patient when doing so places that professional at risk of harm, and so there is a clear ethical tension in any reallocation process in this context. In line with a dominant view in the medical ethics literature, we claim, first, that no individual health professional has a specific, positive obligation to treat a patient when doing so places that professional at risk of harm, and so there is a clear ethical tension in any reallocation process in this context. The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to increasing asymmetries of need across the whole health service, and reallocating clinical staff becomes an important responsive strategy, when staffing levels are finite, to address this issue.	./cache/cord-324387-mnucvmr1.txt	./txt/cord-324387-mnucvmr1.txt