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Refusing to have a child as a patient because of a decision made by the child's parent should always be a last resort, according to Douglas S. Diekema, MD, MPH, attending physician and director of education at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle (WA) Children's Hospital.
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Almost half of family caregivers perform nursing and medical tasks for family members with chronic physical and cognitive conditions, often without any training, in large part because hospitals are discharging very sick patients more quickly, according to a September 2012 report released by the AARP Public Policy Institute and the United Hospital Fund.
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There is nothing like a mandatory hospital evacuation to underscore the importance of including ethics in emergency preparedness, according to Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, professor and director of the Bioethics Program at University of Miami (FL).
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Is a physician unable to exercise reasonable objectivity in providing care, or does the physician lack the requisite skill or training to help the patient?
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The reasons for providers continuing futile life-sustaining treatment are primarily emotional, such as guilt, grief, fear of legal consequences, and concerns about the family's reaction, according to a recent study which surveyed intensive care unit (ICU) and palliative care clinicians.
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Does a psychiatrist offer diagnostic neuroimaging to their patients and claim to diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders using the results?
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When a friend or acquaintance asks for informal medical advice, Steven Brown, MD, a clinical associate professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, gives this standard reply: "I would be doing you a great disservice by pretending that I could give you good medical advice outside the context of a thorough review of your full medical history and an appropriate physical examination."
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There are multiple ethical and legal considerations involved with the misdiagnosis of a melanoma, according to a recently published commentary.
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The most important ethical implication of the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act is "the recognized national responsibility to provide medical care for all citizens," according to Neil S. Wenger, MD, MPH, director of the University of California--Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System Ethics Center and professor at UCLA's Division of General Internal Medicine.
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The goal of proposed reforms in regulations governing human research subjects is to enhance protections for research subjects while reducing burden, delay, and ambiguity for investigators, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Policy, which received more than 1,000 public comments on the proposed changes.
