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Despite the dominance of technology and medical discourse in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), many parents facing the end of their child's life view the experience as a spiritual journey as well as a medical one. Those families rely on religious faith or spiritual support as they struggle to find meaning in their children's situation and make end-of-life decisions for them.
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If your after-hours answering service is asking patients calling in to decide whether their complaint is an emergency, are you asking for trouble? Possibly, says a Minnesota researcher who evaluated 2,835 after-hours calls to a family medicine residency office in Denver.
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The number of academic medical centers that are banning free drug samples, free lunches, and other gifts from pharmaceutical company representatives remains small, but continues to grow.
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Are research and quality improvement (QI) mutually exclusive, or natural partners? When QI crosses over into research, what ethical issues can arise?
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When do you withhold or discontinue life-prolonging treatment in cases deemed medically futile? As baby boomers age, the critical issues surrounding these cases will require advance planning and establishment of guidelines.
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A report published in the February Annals of Internal Medicine has received lots of attention as the study that says older doctors dont keep up, but the findings of the Harvard Medical School study apply to any physician who has been out of residency for five years or more, its author says.
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So-called conscience-clause laws that permit physicians to refuse to perform certain procedures or deliver certain types of care came into popularity after the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion in 1973.
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Suspecting that a colleague might be impaired by drugs or alcohol is difficult; knowing what to do with those suspicions is even harder.
