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Seeking to give a voice to the patients served by its various institutions, Harvard has established the Harvard Community Ethics Committee with one distinct mission: To contribute to ethical decision-making. Now, those decisions are being made with input from members of the community.
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Due to the altruistic nature of most health care providers, members of the giving professions often put their own needs last, often to the detriment of themselves, their colleagues and their personal lives and sometimes their patients.
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About 12 years ago, Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN, and others at Johns Hopkins set about to examine the issue of nurse self-care and the quality of care being delivered in pediatric palliative care.
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Physicians may be operating in burnout mode or suffering from other maladies related to distress and stress long before they are even aware of it, according to Michael K. Kearney, MD, one of the authors of a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) earlier this year titled "Self-care of Physicians Caring for Patient at the End of Life: "Being Connected A Key to My Survival."
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Hospitalists, very simply, are physicians who provide hospital-based care exclusively, and it is increasingly the model used by institutions in order to have physicians on staff and on call at their institutions on a 24/7 basis.
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Is reluctance to permit exceptions from informed consent in emergency research (EICER) preventing important studies from moving forward?
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Medical ethics is not the typical topic of free community health discussions, but the staff at Winona Health's Senior Services, as well as staff at Home Care and Hospice in Winona, MN, have found a welcoming audience for the talk.
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The overriding ethical issue of a pandemic influenza â or any other health crisis involving a contagious disease â appears to be the dilemma of balancing public health vs. individual liberties.
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Depending on the ultimate decision of the Montana Supreme Court in the case of Baxter v. Montana, the complex issue of assisted suicide ultimately could mean that Montana becomes the third state in the United States to allow for physician-assisted suicide, after Oregon and more recently, Washington state.
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Banja: Here's a direction in the brain death debate that I think is most interesting: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Now, this act was passed in 1993 but in 1997 it was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. So, the act is no longer in effect.
