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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.
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CDC appoints ethicists to study flu vaccine shortfall; Internet-brokered kidney transplant raises questions; New stiff penalties for violating HIPAA rules.
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The new staff physician hired by your hospital has more than just years of experience and clinical fluency under his belt. He also has a conviction for felony drug possession. But if you are in one of 35 states that do not require criminal background checks of physicians, you might not find out.
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For as long as humans have been taking care of other humans who are sick or hurt, the rendering of solace and physical comfort has been the core from which all other types of aid have grown. But a nurse and ethicist in California says that ignoring the value of giving of solace and comfort amounts to turning away from the prime reason for the practice of medicine.
