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Fear of being sued for malpractice is certainly one obstacle affecting physicians' willingness to disclose medical errors. But other, more personal and altruistic factors may play even bigger roles in whether a doctor decides to reveal his or her own medical errors, according to a University of Iowa bioethicist.
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A new study attempts to validate the argument that emergency medicine services (EMS) not staffed by paramedics could reduce the number of hopeless ambulance trips to the hospital if emergency medical technicians (EMTs) were allowed to end resuscitation efforts sooner in patients who are in cardiac arrest.
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When faced with a pediatric patient who has a heart condition that could lead to chronic health problems later in life, a physician rarely would hesitate to bring the condition to the attention of the child's parents and discuss ways to address it.
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States will be granted "report cards" on their policies on pain management in an attempt to show how well or inadequately U.S. medicine helps cancer patients deal with chronic pain.
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Medical journals nationwide are taking a harder look at their conflict-of-interest or financial disclosure policies, as publications acknowledge a spate of embarrassing examples of journals failing to cite ties between authors and the companies producing the treatments they write about.
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In 2000, literally a handful of physicians were practicing what has become known as concierge medicine they had slashed their patient load to a fraction of the number of patients seen in a traditional practice, and were charging their remaining 300 to 400 patients a retainer fee that gave them access to the doctors' services around-the-clock and for as much time as they needed.
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Physician peer review has been a galvanizing topic since the mid-1980s, when federal law imposed protections for those lodging charges against physicians; protections that, depending on your opinion, either protect the peer review process or allow it to serve as a weapon for hospitals and dishonest physicians to rid themselves of whistleblowers and competitors.
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Employing placebo therapy without patients' knowledge or cooperation is unethical, the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs states in a new report.
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Perhaps for as long as there have been physicians, there has been the notion that sometimes what a patient knows could hurt him. "Therapeutic privilege," the decision by a physician to withhold information from a patient for his or her own good, is a concept of the past, the American Medical Association (AMA) has determined.
