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The Bioethics Resource Group (BRG), a medical ethics education organization in Charlotte, NC, voted to shut itself down in December after 22 years in which it fostered hospital ethics committees and educated clinicians on advance directives and do-not-resuscitate orders.
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Physicians pressed for time need to note whether their patients truly comprehend what they're being told and what they read about their medications; deficient health literacy is being counted as one contributor to health care disparities in some populations.
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It's bad enough when a patient suffers an adverse event from a wrong-site surgery or a medication error; it only adds insult to injury when the patient or his insurer is billed for the procedure in which the error occurred.
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Is a sick person in Houston more likely to seek care at Methodist Hospital because that facility is the "official hospital" of the Houston Astros, a Major League Baseball team?
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Poor, uninsured people report disrespect, racial discrimination, or other unfair treatment during health care visits, according to a recent study.
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Researchers in Japan and the United States, in simultaneous and nearly identical findings, may have doused one of the most heated controversies in health science research by discovering a way to transform adult human skin cells into cells that closely resemble and act like embryonic stem cells.
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It wasn't years of medical education, AIDS research, and experience that especially prepared Ruth Berggren, MD, to accept her appointment as interim director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas at San Antonio it was, specifically, six days in New Orleans.
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You and a colleague have authored a clinical monograph on pelvic fractures, and the article is with the journal's editor, being prepared for publication.
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A 2004 study published in the Annals of Family Medicine analyzed when patients want a discussion about spirituality and what they want done with the information.
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Following our inclusion of an article on the role of patients spirituality in their medical care, we received a letter from Chaplain Steve Pyle, director of pastoral care at Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, AR. Chaplain Pyle made some insightful comments about our article and included suggestions that we intend to incorporate into future articles on the topic of patients beliefs and their health care.
