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AGAINST OUR OATH The ethical conflicts for doctors working with refugees and asylum seekers


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Thursday 27 February 2020, 6:00-8:00pm

Studio 4, Italian Forum Cultural Centre,  Piazza Level – 23 Norton Street Leichhardt

 

Against Our Oath

The ethical conflicts for doctors working with refugees and asylum seekers

FILEF invites you to a screening of a documentary feature film on doctors working with asylum seekers who arrived in Australia by boat and are de- tained on the remote Pacific islands of Manus and Nauru. Ethical conflicts erupt as the Australian government overrides the clinical decisions made for refugee patients. If doctors cannot follow their medical ethics what will happen to their patients?

Filmed over four years by journalist, Heather Kirkpatrick, 2013 Walkley Award finalist and the winner of a 2014 United Nations Media Peace Prize.

This documentary gets behind the hospital doors to hear from clinicians themselves, who face enormous political pressure, as they cannot always act in their patient’s best interest. Doctors become morally torn as they know they must never abandon their patients and the ethics upon which their medical profession was founded.

Speakers

Dr Elisabeth Biok, phd, Solicitor at the Legal aid Commission, expert on refugee Law in the asia pacific region will give a brief introduction to the current situation, how limiting it is, the government’s refusal to consider positive amendments to the legislation.

Dr. Anne Noonan (MD rome), member of the Medical association for the prevention of War (MapW), psychiatrist, works in remote communities in Central australia.

Q&A will follow. –

Light Refreshments on arrival – Entry by donation

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