Medical Ethics Advisor – November 1, 2015
November 1, 2015
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Significant Savings Come With Early Palliative Care
A new study says early intervention is the key.
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Conflicts can result in clinicians’ moral distress
Ethical conflicts within a care team are not uncommon — nor are they particularly surprising.
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Proposed changes on human subjects research raise some ethical concerns
Reduced administrative burdens and greater protection for human subjects are the goals of proposed revisions to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, also known as the Common Rule.
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Could efforts to stop opioid abuse harm patient/physician relationship?
Due to a growing epidemic of opioid addiction, it’s possible that physicians will react to statements skeptically.
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Ethical challenges in assessing adolescents’ decision-making capacity
An adolescent disagreeing with a parent over treatment is uncommon in the clinical setting. -
Researchers accused of unethical practices: Psychiatric patients “extremely vulnerable”
In 2003, psychiatric researchers at the University of Minnesota recruited a mentally ill young man, Dan Markingson, into a study on an antipsychotic drug. Months later, the patient violently committed suicide; multiple allegations of unethical practices ensued.