WCN'25 Real World Ethics: When It's Hard to Be Good

The session will engage audience members in active discussion of common contemporary ethical challenges in clinical practice, namely those relating to dealing with difficult behaviours from patients (+/- their families) and colleagues. The session will involve facilitated panel (and audience) discussion of three hypothetical cases. The cases will illustrate commonly encountered situations in kidney care that may present ethical dilemmas for clinicians. Clinician and ethicist panelists will discuss the cases, and share their experiences and advice on management strategies, providing different perspectives influenced by local contexts and policies. Some principles and recommendations to guide practice will be presented and their potential value and limitations will be discussed.