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Ethicists’ Role if Clinicians Disregard Documented End-of-Life Wishes
Early involvement of the ethics team can be helpful. After an initial assessment, the healthcare team should arrange a family meeting with surrogates, clinicians, the ethics team, social workers, and other appropriate individuals (e.g., clergy). This should happen as soon as possible, no later than the following day. The ethics team should facilitate an honest and compassionate discussion about the plan to best honor the patient’s end-of-life decisions.
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Wrongful Prolongation of Life Suits Persist, Even When a Patient’s Status Was DNR
Regardless of training or good intentions to preserve life, at the end of the day, this is the patient's choice.
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Living Donor Liver Transplant Raises Multiple Ethical Questions
Living donor liver transplantation could save more lives, but a lack of public awareness about the procedure, the lack of qualified surgeons available to perform the operation, and fears about the donor's long-term health all are obstacles to expansion.
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Use Caution When Leveraging Exception from Informed Consent Rule
The exception from informed consent (EFIC) regulation requires public engagement. This means researchers must publicly disseminate the details of their trials before they are finished and publish the results when the study is completed. Despite these requirements, there is lack of transparency about EFIC trials.
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Personal Connections Are Crucial When Recruiting from Underrepresented Groups
Research findings that are not representative of the entire population perpetuate disadvantages to minoritized groups. Community members can advise research teams about messaging and perceptions that might undermine investigators’ ability to successfully recruit participants from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. A lack of trust in medical research results in many people declining to participate in clinical trials.
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Inconsistent Transparency on Physician Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Medical boards are not consistently transparent on physician sexual misconduct, even two years after the Federation of State Medical Boards released a policy calling for such.
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Moderate-Intensity Exercise OK for Statin Users with Muscle Pain
The go-to drug therapy patients use to lower their bad cholesterol levels can cause muscle pain for some, but researchers found moderate exercise would not exacerbate that pain.
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Virginia Removing Barriers for HCWs to Seek Counseling
Virginia is going “all in” statewide with an effort to improve and protect the mental and emotional well-being of healthcare workers by removing invasive questions in licensing reviews so they can seek counseling without fear of stigma and job loss.
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Ensure Measles Immunity of Healthcare Workers
Waning immunization rates due to pandemic disruption of vaccine schedules and anti-vax misinformation has opened the door for a measles return in the United States, a highly infectious virus that once killed 500 kids a year.
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Nurse Staffing Bill Stirs Support, Debate in OR
A controversial staffing bill for Oregon healthcare facilities has brought the dangers to staff and patients front and center in what appears to be becoming a national trend in nursing negotiations.