Medical Ethics Advisor – April 1, 2006
April 1, 2006
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When patient and provider disagree; ‘Letting’ patients make ‘bad’ choices
If you ever find yourself struggling with the ethical implications of permitting a patient to make a bad medical decision, maybe you should think semantics before you weigh ethics. -
Texas act formalizes ethics committee role in disputes
The Texas Advance Directives Act (TADA) was enacted several years ago after a consensus of health care providers in that state agreed that there was a need to come up with a process to resolve ethical disputes that can arise at the end of life in a way that would foster dialogue and avoid courts of law whenever possible. -
Patients deserve info on quality-of-care cases
Medicare recipients who have a complaint about their quality of care have a means of reporting their complaints but its unlikely they will find out the details of investigations of their complaints, according to the American Health Quality Association (AHQA), which has launched an effort to enact major reforms in the complaints system. -
Group wants ban on role of physician in executions
Spurred by the controversy that arose over a court order compelling physicians to participate in prisoner executions, the California Medical Association is sponsoring legislation seeking to eliminate any role of physicians in future executions. -
AMA: 21 states ‘in crisis’ from closing practices
Tennessee, Guam newest on list; Texas removed John Ameen, one of only two practicing obstetrician/gynecologists in rural Monroe County, TN, is considering abandoning the obstetrics arm of his practice because the cost of medical liability insurance has become more than he can afford. -
Supply of physicians will be adequate through 2020
Bleak reports threatening that there will be too few doctors to manage the growing elderly population are wrong, according to researchers at Dartmouth Medical Schools Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS). -
News Brief: Controversial cadaver exhibit on display
A controversial exhibit featuring preserved, posed human bodies will be shown by the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Baylor College of Medicine through September, despite some complaints that the display is exploitative.