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Frontline access management staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston face excruciating tasks on a daily basis.
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Hospitals struggling to survive while absorbing an increasing amount of uncompensated health care are welcoming recent changes to federal patient-dumping legislation that clarify and limit the instances in which hospitals are required to provide care regardless of a patients ability to pay.
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Concerned that their loved ones mental capacities may not be able to keep up with their physical maturity, parents and guardians of adults and adolescents with mental retardation sometimes seek to have these people undergo medical sterilization procedures to prevent what they perceive as the potential burden of unanticipated parenthood.
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Ask many physicians about informed consent and often youll find they consider it a concept clear in ethics texts, but murky in practice.
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As new information technologies continue to make person-to-person communications easier and more varied, they also are transforming the way that health care can be provided.
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CEJA Guidelines for Internet Use
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Over the past decade, obstetricians have noted an interesting phenomenon more women rejecting the concept of a natural birth and requesting elective cesarean deliveries, sometimes called patient-choice cesareans or cesareans on demand.
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If an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) were to occur in the United States this year, our health care and public health systems might have a significantly harder time detecting and containing spread of the virus than the countries that experienced cases last year, experts say.
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Canadas drug shortage from U.S. Internet sales?
