Dual loyalty (ethics)

Dual loyalty (ethics)
This article is about ethics. For dual loyalty in politics, see Dual loyalty.

In ethics, dual loyalty is loyalty to two separate interests that potentially conflict with each other.

A frequently cited example of the term "dual loyalty" is used in connection with physicians who must balance, on the one hand, the physician's loyalty to a patient (and/or the regulations that govern the physician-patient relationship), and on the other hand, the institution or country for which the physician serves.

For example, a doctor who is asked by a government to assess a prisoner's fitness to withstand torture faces an enormous ethical dilemma because of the competing loyalties of the doctor to the state versus the physician's code of ethics and his/her commitment to a patient's human rights. [1]

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