A patient on a transplant waiting list learns she can quickly and less expensively obtain the organ she needs in Thailand.
Health care providers are among groups ethically and legally obligated to report suspected child abuse.
It's a slippery slope say those who oppose legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS): Legalizing PAS will create disproportionate death rates among groups such as the elderly, uninsured, mentally ill, and poor. But a team of international ethicists say data don't support that concern.
A chaplain who recently resigned from her post at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD, said her resignation was requested by the hospital after she tried to end a policy permitting The Gideons missionary organization to deliver Bibles to all hospital patients.
Research ethics is seen as a nuisance at best, an impediment to progress at worst, says a Cornell University medical ethicist, who adds that a closer collaboration between researchers and ethicists might lead to a change in that perception.
Before an ethics committee takes the time and effort to evaluate its performance, the members might want to step back and examine its standing within the institution.
The outlook for patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) may have new potential, according to a team of physicians, scientists, and ethicists who used deep brain stimulation (DBS) to improve function in a man's still-responsive brain networks.
The mere perception that a physician is stigmatizing patients for carrying the AIDS virus can discourage HIV-infected people from seeking proper medical care, according to researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Religion — or lack of religious beliefs — is a factor in the choice of psychiatry as a profession and in whether some physicians refer their patients to psychiatrists, according to a physician who has undertaken research on medicine and religious beliefs.
Families who balk at organ donation when faced with the death of a loved one may have been influenced by inaccurate portrayals of organ donation in television programs, Purdue University researchers suggest.
