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Preserving a patient's dignity is more important than some doctors think, according to a palliative care expert who points out that loss of dignity is one of the most common reasons patients seek out physician-hastened death.
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Physicians in intensive care settings at times make the decision to withdraw life-supporting care from patients who are incapacitated and have no surrogate decision makers or advance directives.
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One of your patients dies as the result of an AIDS-related infection. During the time he was under your care, he made it clear that he did not want his parents to know that he was HIV-positive or suffering from AIDS.
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Blogger beware some on-line medical diarists have found the benefits of sharing experiences and observations via their web logs ("blogs") can come at a cost.
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Are residents in training who moonlight in emergency departments (EDs) more likely to experience clinical errors and oversights? The answer is a definite yes, say experts, and to allow them to practice unsupervised is unethical, they add.
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Physicians say they sometimes struggle to strike a balance in their doctor-patient relationships not too personal, not too aloof.
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The public health threat posed by Andrew Speaker, the Georgia lawyer who traveled to Europe and back as he learned that he not only had tuberculosis, but an extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), warranted the first federally ordered quarantine in 44 years.
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Researchers at a large children's hospital found that nurses who were comfortable working with dying children and their families were also nurses who reported high levels of hopefulness.
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While most doctors might feel good about the idea of disclosing medical errors to patients, a University of Iowa researcher says fewer than half of the physicians and medical students his team surveyed actually have disclosed real medical errors.
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'Lights camera:' Bill calls for videotaped surgeries; Medical researchers not as unbiased as they think