2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: If you hit someone with a frying pan, it’s not cooking!!!

In this episode of Essential Ethics, recorded at the 2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, social workers Dani Gold and Anna Lucia examine the ethical consequences of how family violence is documented in healthcare records. In If you hit someone with a frying pan, it’s not cooking, they argue that softened or minimising language can obscure harm and undermine patient dignity. Drawing on their expertise in family violence and child safety, they offer practical strategies for more accurate, respectful documentation and highlight why every response to violence carries ethical significance.