"ethically challenging" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it to describe any situation that requires you to make a difficult ethical decision based on moral principles. For example: "The CEO's decision to keep the factory open despite the potential harm to employees was an ethically challenging situation."
The team was also considered a source of support for trainees when they encountered a clinically or ethically challenging situation.
The most frequent discussions in the ethics reflection groups have been ethically challenging patient cases from the participant's workday.
The ethically challenging situations confronting politicians and civil servants responsible for elder care have been illuminated [ 11].
But Ms. Shane and Ms. Wilson are less interested in recapitulating political debates than in understanding how the doctors approach work that would be emotionally difficult and ethically challenging even without the incessant controversy.
The use of animals in scientific research is the most controversial, divisive, and ethically challenging question I face.
Ex vivo models represent a promising alternative to simple in vitro systems or complex, ethically challenging in vivo models.
The measurement of a placebo response related to endovascular procedures in MS may be scientifically and ethically challenging.
Moreover, advances in technology, particularly in biotechnology (genome editing, human perfecting, cloning, 3D bio printing, etc)., will trigger new, costly and ethically challenging social demands.
Although individual patients and physicians may benefit financially and educationally from certain gifts, the risk of bias resulting from such gifts makes them ethically challenging.
I wish I could still believe in fairy tales with good guys and bad guys instead of this messy, ethically challenging political reality of bad and worse.
