How would you handle a situation in which you had an ethical or philosophical difference with a patient?
As a practicing Anesthesiologist, you will treat patients from many different cultural backgrounds and walks of life. Your interviewer wants to know that you can effectively work with any of their patients.
"Throughout my life, I've valued diversity and inclusion, and this rings true with the patients that I treat. If I treated a patient with different beliefs, I would listen to the patient so I could hear where they are coming from and why they feel the way they do. If a cultural difference made the patient hesitant about a particular treatment, I would do my best to educate them sensitively and offer alternatives that would work with their values and beliefs. In the end, I would strive to do what is best for the patient in a manner that works the best for them."
Explain to your interviewers that you will take a fair and balanced approach with any patient you work with as an Anesthesiologist. Point out that you can never know the entire story of a patient and that you are there to serve, help, and protect patients rather than judge them. Emphasize the value you put on diversity in the workplace.
