ten high profile medical ethics cases

... of practical ethics, including medical ethics What better place to start this tour of medical ethics than at the end, with the thorny issue of euthanasia? Chapter Euthanasia: good medical practice, ... discussions, and inspiration Contents List of illustrations xiii On why medical ethics is exciting Is medical research the new imperialism? 99 Euthanasia: good medical practice, or murder? Why ... who are yet to be Medical Ethics born – and who may never exist This question leads us beyond medicine to consider our responsibilities towards the future of mankind Medical ethics ranges from...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 17:31

... is medical ethics, the branch of ethics that deals with moral issues in medical practice Medical ethics is closely related, but not identical to, bioethics (biomedical ethics) Whereas medical ethics ... WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION World Medical Association Medical Ethics Manual Medical student holding a newborn © Roger Ball/CORBIS Medical Ethics Manual – Principal Features of Medical Ethics Medical ... essential for competent medical practice The best way to gain this familiarity Medical Ethics Ethics Manual – Ethics and Medical Research Medical Manual – Principal Features of Medical Ethics 97 96...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:20

... Gregory's medical ethics There I will take seriously the possibihty that present medical ethics does not defeat past medical ethics, at least in Gregory's case Indeed, I shall argue that present medical ... of medical ethics and therefore the history of bioethics To these, I will show in this book, Gregory added the accomplishment of writing the first feminine medical ethics in the history of medical ... contemporary feminine ethics and bioethics, namely, that they threaten or even undermine feminist ethics (Jecker and Reich, 1995) At the same time, Gregory's feminine medical ethics anticipates...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... for the Profile sub score where females had a significantly higher score Given there is no difference in other sub scores there is no apparent reason why females should have a higher Profile ... be’ While scores for females tended to be higher than for males for all sub-scores of the MYMOP2, there were no statistically significant differences except for profile scores where females had ... musculoskeletal complaints [6] It is lower than those of patients attending for acupuncture in medical practices (4.7) [2], and for those patients attending general practice in the UK (4.6) [1] The presenting...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... http://ccforum.com/content/13/1/R3 reported (5307 cases, 53.5%) Gastrointestinal disorders were responsible for 8.9% of all emergencies (926 cases) The third most common medical emergency was ... various medical emergencies encountered in our study showed that syncope was by far the most frequent medical condition (5307 cases, 53.5%), followed by gastrointestinal disorders (926 cases, ... common medical emergency was cardiac conditions (509 cases, 4.9%), followed by fear of flying (460 cases, 4.3%) and generalised pain (432 cases, 4.1%) Details of all diagnoses are summarised...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... “Data Mining and Medical Knowledge Management: Cases and Applications” is a collection of case studies in which advanced DM and KM solutions are applied to concrete cases in biomedical research ... support The second one is designed for medical studies or research It helps to explain cases that contradict a theoretical hypothesis Section III Specific Cases This part shows results of several ... always dependent on already formalized knowledge, often represented as medical terminologies (Savova et al., 2008; Cimiano et al., 2005) Indeed, medical ontologies and terminologies themselves may...

Ngày tải lên: 16/08/2013, 16:24

... mutability of medical ethics 12 1.11 The law and medical ethics in conflict 13 1.12 Conflicts between ethical principles 13 1.13 Ethics beyond the doctor–patient relationship 14 1.14 Ethics and limited ... privacy law 95 6.11 Retention and destruction of medical records 96 6.12 Retention of medical records when a doctor retires or dies 6.13 Medical records and the courts 98 6.14 Medical records and ... References Teaching medical ethics and law within medical education: a model for the UK core curriculum J Med Ethics 1998; 24: 188–92 An ethics core curriculum for Australasian medical schools Position...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... CHAPTER Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics Law Ethics Bioethics Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine Comparing Law, Ethics, and Bioethics The Importance of Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics Codes of Ethics ... Chapter 6:52 PM ▲ Page MEDICAL LAW, ETHICS, AND BIOETHICS T he title Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics for the Health Professions implies three distinct topics: law, ethics, and bioethics Such distinction ... CHAPTER Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics CHAPTER Medical Practice Management 14 CHAPTER Employees in Ambulatory Care 32 01Lewis(F) Ch-01 4/12/07 6:52 PM Page CHAPTER Medical Law, Ethics, and Bioethics...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 06:20

... B USINESS ETHICS Ethical Decision Making and Cases 8TH EDITION This page intentionally left blank B USINESS ETHICS Ethical Decision Making and Cases 8TH EDITION O C Ferrell ... intentionally left blank BRIEF CONTENTS PART : Ethical Issues and the Institutionalization of Business Ethics 55  Emerging Business Ethics Issues 56  The Institutionalization of Business Ethics ... Benefits Of Business Ethics 17 Ethics Contribute to Employee Commitment, 18 • Ethics Contribute to Investor Loyalty, 19 • Ethics Contribute to Customer Satisfaction, 20 • Ethics Contribute to...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:20

... Maputo Province and Maputo City, where the medical school is located On the other hand, most of the students enrolled in the medical school completed high school education in Maputo (city or province), ... allow them to be good, competent doctors in Mozambique and elsewhere [10] As for medical students in other Portuguese speaking African countries [11], there is a high level of commitment to public ... expectations of medical students in Mozambique, Human Resources for Health 2007, 5:11 [http://www.human-resources-health.com/ content/5/1/11] Adegoke OA, Noronha C: University Pre -Medical Academic...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... efficiency gd of our ten- layer InAs narrow RWG QD lasers are among the highest values in the 1.29–1.30 lm wavelength range ever reported The high device performance is attributed to the high quality ... even at high excitation power and high temperature This indicates that the QD laser structure exhibits strong luminescent efficiency without degradation in material quality even with ten QD layers ... maintained in the InAs QD laser structure up to 100°C under high excitation level, this indicates the availability of high GS gain from the p-doped ten- layer InAs QD active region The wafer was processed...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... BRCA1 heterozygotes BRCA1 tumors tended to be of higher grade in both populations, as expected; however, Algerian non-BRCA1 cases included a significant excess of high grade tumors (p < 0.001) Significantly ... respectively) Algerian familial cases, regardless of BRCA status, were similar to French BRCA1 cases (37.2 + 6.3 vs 41.2 + 10.4; p = 0.19), younger than French BRCA2 cases (47.5 + 14.5; p = 0.015) ... the average age of mutated sporadic cases (32.8 + 5.0 years) versus non-mutated sporadic cases (31.3 + 4.4 years), nor between familial mutated vs non-mutated cases (38.4 + 4.8 vs 35.7 + 8.9 years,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 17:20

... convincing response to families’ concerns are related to higher donation consent rates [9] From this standpoint, we feel the need to highlight the role of physicians, from primary to tertiary ... Int J Med Sci 2011, Similar problems become even more challenging in the context of an Intensive Care Setting (ICU) The ‘ephemeral’ and acute case-contact in an ICU environment may compromise ... choices are given, particularly in systems that face conditions of crisis In order to avoid this potential risk, efforts to install a universally accepted process of ‘negotiation’ based on concrete...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... between the tentorium cerebelli and tumor was divided into infratentorial > supratentorial in three cases (Figure 1), supratentorial > infratentorial in two cases, supratentorial = infratentorial ... patients, six cases were found to suffer from headaches, four cases had papilledema, three cases had hearing loss, one case exhibited limb hemiparesis, five cases displayed dizziness, four cases presented ... were severe in four cases, moderate in two cases, mild in three cases and no staining in one case The VC shifted downwards in three cases, upwards in one case, laterally in four cases and no shift...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... to intermediate and high- grade disease and for the most part diseases that are considered invasive, which highlight the rarity of the presented case Fiveyear survival for high- grade Ta disease ... (right acetabular invasion) and distal rectal involvement http://www.wjso.com/content/6/1/103 tures, with focal areas of high grade tumor seen (Figure 2; low magnification 10 × 10) The tumor invaded ... value of the cystectomy in our case is high, because of the well known problem of clinical understaging in urothelial carcinomas (Table 1) http://www.wjso.com/content/6/1/103 The mechanism responsible...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... determining tolerance would be of great value in patients treated with high- dose radiation protocol [5] Microarray technology is a high throughput method that allows large scale genomic studies Because ... Thus, we studied gene expression profile of lymphocytes treated with and Gy separately To explore genes modulated by radiation, we also compared gene expression profiles of lymphocytes treated ... were treated with highdose radiation protocol with altered fractionation, iii) the complete human genome was analyzed and iv) comparative studies of constitutive gene expression profiles of LABC...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... Ishikawa diagram as a tool to assist memory and retrieval of relevant medical cases from the medical literature Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:120 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed ... as having an androgen secreting steroid cell Wong Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011, 5:120 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/5/1/120 tumor of the ovary [15] In addition, BMJ Case Reports ... cultivate lifelong learning habits in medical professionals Medical educators can also apply Ishikawa diagrams to facilitate problem-based learning when teaching medical students and junior doctors...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... on perceived need for medical or psychological help (response options: no problem, need help only from friends, need medical/ psychological help but not receiving it, need medical/ psychological ... context-specific [13] Objectives The specific objectives of the study were to: (i) highlight how satisfied Kuwaiti senior high school students were with life circumstances as in the WHOQOLBref; (ii) ... be high, in comparison with the international data - In view of the robust findings in the literature, however, poorer QOL would be significantly associated with female gender, older age, high...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... with high retention Methods The study was based on data from a prospective study of the course of buprenorphine treatment in a highly structured clinic Patients in the clinic received maintenance ... Discussion The program had a high retention rate compared to levels reported in other studies [35,36] Fifty percent of the patients remained in treatment over the first year showing high compliance with ... treatment in the clinic had a clear focus on abstinence, high structure, high compliance with the treatment regimen, and the contingency between work attendance and the continuance of treatment, a format...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22