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While the possibility of using genetic information for evil, rather than good, sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, the likelihood of that happening is ever-present.
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The first-in-human clinical trials raise difficult ethical issues for researchers and review boards because of the uncertainty that accompanies them.
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Ethical questions and concerns are being raised in cities and towns all over the United States as a number of prison inmates seem to be receiving better and/or reduced rate healthcare for otherwise costly medical procedures.
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The commercial funding of continuing medical education (CME) and the potential for bias is of great concern for a significant number of healthcare practitioners and researchers, many of whom admit to being unwilling to pay higher fees to eliminate or offset commercial funding, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, (Arch Intern Med 2011;171:840-846).
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Recently Catholic hospitals have received a large amount of media coverage in the news and on the Internet stemming from certain decisions concerning healthcare and ethics.
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(Editor's note: This issue includes the first part of a two-part series looking at the problem of staffing keeping silent when danger looms. This month we discuss the recently released report The Silent Treatment. We examine why staff don't speak up and how to address that problem. In next month's issue, we offer four recommendations to create a culture in which people speak up effectively about concerns.)
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A few months after performing breast augmentation on a patient, a California surgeon had a consensual three-month relationship with her.
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Oh my. This is such a litigious time we live in. People are hurling themselves in front of moving buses, throwing themselves down steps, and falling in food stores, all in an effort to cash in on unearned and undeserved booty from insurance companies in frivolous lawsuits.
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There's a new trend in outpatient surgery toward computer-based informed consent. But does this method offer any advantages, legal or otherwise? Yes, according to sources interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
