Zoë Fritz is a Wellcome fellow in Society and Ethics, and a Consultant Physician in Acute medicine at Cambridge University Hospital. Her research is focused on identifying areas of clinical practice that raise ethical questions and applying rigorous empirical and ethical analysis to explore the issues and find effective solutions.
Examples of her work include developing and assessing a new approach to Resuscitation decisions (www.respectprocess.org.uk – she chairs the ReSPECT subcommittee for RCUK); working on the relationship between trust, questioning and the issue of “Too Much Medicine’; and considering the legal, ethical and empirical consequences of communicating uncertainty in diagnosis.
