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You and a colleague have authored a clinical monograph on pelvic fractures, and the article is with the journal's editor, being prepared for publication.
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It wasn't years of medical education, AIDS research, and experience that especially prepared Ruth Berggren, MD, to accept her appointment as interim director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas at San Antonio it was, specifically, six days in New Orleans.
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Researchers in Japan and the United States, in simultaneous and nearly identical findings, may have doused one of the most heated controversies in health science research by discovering a way to transform adult human skin cells into cells that closely resemble and act like embryonic stem cells.
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Poor, uninsured people report disrespect, racial discrimination, or other unfair treatment during health care visits, according to a recent study.
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Is a sick person in Houston more likely to seek care at Methodist Hospital because that facility is the "official hospital" of the Houston Astros, a Major League Baseball team?
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To the attorneys, the question of whether nonprofit hospitals are living up to their mission to provide health care to those who cant afford it is purely a consumer-protection question. But to a physician who blew the whistle on one hospital, its much more of a human question.
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The severe nationwide shortage of killed flu vaccine has put a stop, at least temporarily, to initiatives in some places that would force health care workers to be vaccinated or risk their jobs, but some health care experts warn that the solution advocated by at least one state that health care workers forego the vaccine entirely so that more is available for higher-risk groups could be dangerous to the very people it aims to protect.
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For as long as humans have been taking care of other humans who are sick or hurt, the rendering of solace and physical comfort has been the core from which all other types of aid have grown. But a nurse and ethicist in California says that ignoring the value of giving of solace and comfort amounts to turning away from the prime reason for the practice of medicine.
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The new staff physician hired by your hospital has more than just years of experience and clinical fluency under his belt. He also has a conviction for felony drug possession. But if you are in one of 35 states that do not require criminal background checks of physicians, you might not find out.
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CDC appoints ethicists to study flu vaccine shortfall; Internet-brokered kidney transplant raises questions; New stiff penalties for violating HIPAA rules.
