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If Covid vaccine refusers are turned away at hospitals and doctor offices, is that ethical?

Dr. Jason Valentine, a family medicine physician at the Diagnostic and Medical Clinic Infirmary Health in Mobile, Alabama, informed his patients this month that, effective Oct. 1, he would no longer treat those who hadn’t been vaccinated against Covid-19. Around … Tęsti skaitymą

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Doctors Are Investigated After Posting Organ Photos Online as ‘Price Is Right’ Game

A health care network in Michigan said it had opened an investigation after some operating room doctors posted photos on social media last week showing themselves holding a surgically removed organ and tissue material as part of a game that … Tęsti skaitymą

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Many doctors have negative perceptions of patients with disabilities — and that impacts quality of care, study finds

More than 82% of American doctors say they believe patients with significant disabilities have a worse quality of life than people who don’t have disabilities, according to a new study. Those negative perceptions can have big impacts on the quality … Tęsti skaitymą

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How Much Should the Public Know About Who Has a Coronavirus?

When the first case of the coronavirus in Silicon Valley was discovered in late January, health officials were faced with a barrage of questions: What city did the patient live in? Whom had he come in contact with? Which health … Tęsti skaitymą

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The limits of doctor-patient confidentiality tested in the UK

A difficult case in the United Kingdom has opened up questions about the confidentiality of the patient-doctor relationship. In the UK “non-disclosure is the default position and the bar for breaching confidentiality is relatively high.” In 2007 a man called … Tęsti skaitymą

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Moral Distress in Neurosurgery

It is difficult to predict the outcome of the surgery, so the choice to operate or not to operate often generates moral distress in the doctor who makes it. I go with my gut when deciding whether or not to … Tęsti skaitymą

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‘They are together, they are equal’: the agonising choice facing father of conjoined twins

Separation surgery would save the life of one of the three-year-old girls but lead to the death of the other. Ibrahima Ndiaye, the twins’ father, tells how he came to his decision. Over the past two and a half years, … Tęsti skaitymą

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Never say ‘die’: Why so many doctors won’t break bad news

It’s never easy to tell a patient about a terminal illness, but a longtime doctor whose own diagnosis was botched says physicians must do better. more

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Ending Privacy As We Know It

Threats to privacy and confidentiality swirl around. Each day the newspaper seems to report on stories that show the erosion of this fundamental human right. Larger legal and ethical conversation raised by new technologies and norms that make privacy a … Tęsti skaitymą

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Now Mental Health Patients Can Specify Their Care Before Hallucinations and Voices Overwhelm Them

Psychiatric advance directives allow patients with serious mental illness to specify the treatment they want if they become too sick to say so. Patients, advocates and doctors believe such directives (called PADs) could help transform the mental health system by … Tęsti skaitymą

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