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Emergency physicians and nurses require more training to manage the complex needs of growing numbers of patients who come to the emergency department for end-of-life care, according to a study published online Dec. 3, 2010, in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
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A group of experts in areas ranging from medicine to law and bioethics suggests that a base of quality evidence must exist and associated ethical concerns must be addressed before public health strategies based on genomics are implemented.
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The focus of The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare's programming is something called The Schwartz Center Rounds, which would have a familiar ring to most clinicians.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.