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As Hong Kong moves toward a "super-aged society," population ageing has heightened public expectations for local healthcare policies and systems. Ensuring sustainability, however, requires not only comprehensive resource planning and quality services but also serious engagement with the ethical issues underlying the system. This book examines ethical challenges from two levels: healthcare institutions and the professional conduct of medical staff. Through analysis of healthcare financing options, allocation of resources, the balance between medical professionalism and patient rights, end-of-life decisions, neonatal genetic screening, and medical error, it probes current difficulties and proposes solutions to improve the system and enhance professionalism and service quality for sustainable social development. Including essays by over a dozen medical professionals and public policy scholars, the book synthesizes stakeholder experiences to resonate with practitioners and guide readers to reflect on pressing medical issues.

香港正邁向「銀齡社會」，人口老化問題令社會大眾對本地醫療政策及系統的要求愈來愈高。然而，要令本港醫療制度可持續發展，當中所面對的挑戰不少，不但要配合全面的資源規劃和有質素的醫療服務，更需要正視背後的倫理問題。本書從醫療制度和醫護人員的專業操守兩個層面，探討香港面對的醫療倫理問題。透過分析醫療融資政策方案、探討醫療資源的公平分配、醫生專業與病人權益的平衡、臨終治療的抉擇、新生兒遺傳篩選以及醫療失誤等不同的倫理議題，深入研究目前醫療系統所面對的困難和挑戰，並嘗試提出相關的解決方法，以改善香港的醫療制度，優化醫療專業與服務質素，令整個社會得以可持續發展。一個人由出生到死亡，總離不開醫療服務。書中結集十多位醫療專業人士及公共政策研究學者的文章，綜合業界不同持分者的經驗和洞見，冀能透過討論引起同業之間的共鳴，並引導讀者反思當中的醫學議題，令社會大眾更關注近在身邊的醫療問題。

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