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Spirituality is recognized as a factor that many patients say contributes to their health; but now experts even some who previously had doubts are embracing patients and their own spirituality as an essential part of treatment.
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Though the Supreme Courts recent ruling in Gonzales v. Oregon says more about physicians authority to write prescriptions than about the right of states to pass laws permitting physician-assisted suicide (PAS), proponents of Oregons Death with Dignity law welcomed the ruling as a victory for physician discretion and patient autonomy.
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If a grateful patient presented you with one of his Aunt Marys special fruitcakes during the holidays, it was probably pretty obvious that such a gift presents no ethical dilemma.
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The nations largest hospital accreditation organization has issued a new warning aiming to reduce harmful incidents arising from inaccurate delivery of medications.
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The number of Oregon residents who ended their lives in 2005 by employing the states legal physician-assisted suicide law was twice the number that it was in 1998, the first year after the law was passed.
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Conflicts of interest created when health care professionals form ties with the pharmaceutical industry are a mixed bag, according to experts from the Veterans Health Administrations (VHA) National Center for Ethics in Health Care.
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Association addresses spirituality, medicine; Ontario transplant act triples organ donations; Patients recount ideal physician behaviors
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Just over a year ago, Terri Schiavo was the center of worldwide attention in several different roles severely brain-injured bulimic, daughter and wife trapped in a public family fight, fuel for debates over right to life vs. right to refuse, and subject of endless talk show discussion.
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Making end-of-life decisions for incapacitated patients most often falls to surrogates chosen by the patients, or to next of kin. But a recent review of the literature indicates that surrogates are only slightly better than physicians at making decisions that the patient would make if he or she were able.
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The criminal investigation of hospitals and health care providers in New Orleans has cast an unusual light on a group whose primary mission is to heal.
