Conflict in Medical Ethics Cases: Seeking Patterns of Resolution

and unwilling-ness to engage in problem solving; accommodation is a one-sided approach to problem solving characterized by behavior that conforms to the other party’s values and sacrifices one’s own values; coercion is a one-sided approach characterized by behavior that conforms to one’s own values and sacrifices the other party’s values; compromise is a joint approach to problem solving characterized by give-and-take and some sacrifice of each party’s values; and collaboration is a joint approach that produces a solution requiring little or no sacrifice of either party’s values. I suggest that monitoring the following four case-specific variables helps us assess which

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