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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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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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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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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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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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A paper released in November by a British bioethics council has generated hot debate and headlines warning "disabled babies to be killed at birth," but the guidelines set out by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics regarding the treatment of babies born severely premature are similar to those observed in many states in the United States.
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In its infancy, neuroethics was thought of as simply a small offshoot of the bigger field of bioethics. In the last five years, however, interest in and study of neuroethics has taken on a life of its own, spawning studies, conferences, and the establishment of a society to further the development of the field. The term "neuroethics" is believed to have been coined in the literature in the early 1990s.
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The recent federal approval of nonprescription sales of the emergency contraceptive Plan B (Barr Laboratories; Woodcliffe Lake, NJ) to women and men ages 18 and older may have quieted what was a brewing controversy in emergency medicine. However, the ethical issues that gave rise to the debate still are very much in play, emergency department (ED) experts say.
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Only about one in four physicians in the United States use e-mail to communicate clinical information to patients, and one reason may be a lack of effective means of billing for e-mail time. But some say they don't yet know enough about what quality of care can be delivered via patients' e-mail inboxes.
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A patient's race, age, and medical condition may affect whether or not they receive pain medications in the emergency department (ED), according to a study of adults who presented to an emergency department with musculoskeletal pain.
