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About 650 surgical fires are reported in U.S. hospitals each year, according to the nonprofit ECRI Institute in Plymouth Meeting, PA, and there are another three to four times as many near-misses. Fires during surgery can be extremely serious, causing significant injuries and death to both patients and clinicians.
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Because HIPAA can be enforced by state attorneys general and not just the feds, risk managers should study any interstate connections that could come into play if there is a privacy breach...
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While Rebecca Walker, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Social Medicine Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says she does not "mean any one thing" by the use of the term "justice," she does have justice concerns regarding the use of psychosocial criteria in determining individuals who are selected to receive organs from donation for transplantation.
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A surgeon and a pediatrician are among the four American physicians have been named as recipients of the first Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards.
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With the advent of consumer-directed health care (CDHC), two professors argue, contrary to the common notion that physicians should ignore financial considerations when treating patients, that it is entirely appropriate for physicians to be sensitive to a patient's financial position when a patient is paying out of pocket.
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The Montana Supreme Court issued a ruling just as 2009 ended, on Dec. 31, which determined Montanans have the right under that state's public policy to seek a physician's aid in assisted suicide, with no threat of sanction or legal action against the physician.
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One fortunate change in 25 years is that medical ethics has entered the mainstream of discussion and debate, but increased visibility can have unfortunate drawbacks, as well.
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[Editor's note: With this month's issue of Medical Ethics Advisor, we mark 25 years of efforts to bring you the most up-to-date research and news in the ethics arena of health care. Going forward, we hope to continue this tradition, and we invite you, the readers, to share your own ideas and experiences with our editorial advisory board and editor.]
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If you assume that your workforce has better than average health statistics due to programs for nutrition, fitness, and smoking cessation, you may be sadly mistaken. On the other hand, you may have far fewer obese employees than the national average.
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Pick up any newspaper or magazine or turn on the news and you're likely to hear somebody talking about this country's obesity epidemic.
