Volume I of the Casebook, Making Difficult Decisions with Patients and Families is a free and open-access online resource for continuing professional education in healthcare ethics for doctors, nurses, and allied healthcare staff. Each case is supported by expert commentaries highlighting ethical issues and a clinical perspective by a healthcare professional offering practical insight. Additional support is provided by informational backgrounders, questions for reflection, and further online resources.
The characters that appear in the Casebook are fictitious and modelled for teaching and learning purposes on the basis of common clinical encounters described by healthcare professionals, and do not refer to specific, real individuals, living or dead. Any individuals appearing in photographs depicting these characters bear no relationship or connection whatsoever to the stories ascribed to those characters.