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Institutions that fund or conduct neuroscience research should incorporate ethical considerations into all stages of the process, according to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues’ April 2014 report, Gray Matters, Integrative Approaches for Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society.
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Nurses are often the health care providers who know the most about a patient’s wishes for end-of-life care, but are sometimes left out of such discussions.
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These points summarize the Pharmaceutical Research and Marketing Association (PhRMA) voluntary code on interactions with health care professionals. The full document is available on the associations web site at www.phrma.org.
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Key Elements of the Virginia Commonwealth Organ Donation Protocol
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A patient deciding to change doctors is not an unusual occurrence; sometimes, the physician doesn't even learn the reason for the change. It's a much more highly charged situation when a physician decides he or she must end a professional relationship with a patient.
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A medical error creates guilt, fear, and loneliness for both the caregiver and the patient and patient's family feelings that can lead each side to withdraw unless efforts are taken by all parties to develop solutions and foster forgiveness.
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A third-year medical student sits with an end-stage lung cancer patient who is in hospice. The patient wants to talk, but not about pain or death or advance directives he wants to know the student's plans for the future.
