The COVID-19 pandemic has raised serious medical, ethical and organisational challenges. Although several excellent articles have been published on the ethical aspects of the pandemic from a bioethicist's perspective, scant literature is available on the clinician's perspective. Issues of importance from the clinician's perspective include duty to treat, personal safety, family safety, colleague safety, resource allocation, non-COVID-19 patient care and research. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of treatment issues for health professionals. Being a clinician comes with a duty of kindness to patients. Doctors have more responsibilities to help patients than non-physicians. Doctors have a duty to treat patients who are victims of the
outbreak of infectious disease. This raises a number of pressing issues: what is an acceptable level of risk for a healthcare worker? When is a risk unreasonable and who should decide? Do doctors have the right to refuse to work if they are not provided with appropriate personal protective equipment?