MEDICAL ETHICS

Healthcare workers and the duty to treat Ebola patients

Xavier Symons | 25 August 2018 | Comments

tags: africa, ebola, medical ethics, professional ethics

Is there a duty to treat patients with Ebola?

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Managing miracle expectations in clinical medicine

Xavier Symons | 28 April 2018 | Comments

tags: medical ethics, miracles, religion

What do you do when someone expects a medical miracle?

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After 70 years, lessons from the Nuremberg Code

Michael Cook | 09 December 2017 | Comments

tags: bioethics, medical ethics, nazi doctors, nuremberg code

The medical profession must remain ever vigilant

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Fighting the scourge of ‘red envelopes’ for China’s doctors

Michael Cook | 28 May 2017 | Comments

tags: china, corruption, medical ethics, red envelopes

Is it corruption or a recognition of their dignity?

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Should American doctors participate in executions?

Michael Cook | 06 May 2017 | Comments

tags: capital punishment, medical ethics

Against the consensus, a cardiologist says they should

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Where did Nazi doctors learn their ethics? From a textbook

Michael Cook | 29 April 2017 | Comments

tags: bioethics, medical ethics, nazi doctors

There was no lack of ethical training in the Nazi era

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A surprising ethical conversion

Michael Cook | 18 June 2016 | Comments

tags: Henry K. Beecher, informed consent, medical ethics, Nuremberg Code

A pioneer in modern medical ethics broke some of the rules

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Indian doctors snared by female extortionists

Michael Cook | 14 November 2015 | Comments

tags: Hippocratic Oath, medical ethics

"Acts of an amorous nature" and medicine do not mix

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Doctors under the black flag of the Islamic State

Michael Cook | 07 March 2015 | Comments

tags: ISIS, Islamic State, medical ethics

Health care workers face agonising dilemmas.

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Ethicists no more moral than other professionals, says new study

Xavier Symons | 01 June 2013 | Comments

tags: bioethics, medical ethics, professional integrity, professional standards

Ethicists like to think of themselves as morally good people. But a recent article in the journal Metaphilosophy questions this.

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Bahrain sentences protest docs to prison

Jared Yee | 28 November 2012 | Comments

tags: Bahrain, medical ethics, politics and bioethics

A court in Bahrain has sentenced 23 medical professionals to 3 months in prison each or payment of a fine for involvement in the pro-democracy protests of last year, according to the BBC.

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Corruptio optimi pessima, o medice?

Michael Cook | 04 May 2012 | Comments

tags: medical ethics, nazi doctors

The behaviour of Nazi doctors is universally accepted as a touchstone of bioethics. In the current issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics, a medical student asks whether doctors are actually more likely than other professions to be moral monsters.

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Doctors not always honest with patients: survey

Jared Yee | 17 February 2012 | Comments

tags: doctor-patient relationship, medical ethics, medical statistics, UK

About 10% of doctors in a recent survey in Health Affairs admitted that they sometimes lie to their patients.

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Bahraini doctors jailed for treating protesters

Michael Cook | 01 October 2011 | Comments

tags: Bahrain, medical ethics

Most news about military medical ethics involves doctors who harm patients. But in Bahrain 20 Shi’ite doctors and nurses have been jailed for up to 15 years for helping patients.

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Why don’t surgeons study medical ethics?

Michael Cook | 18 June 2011 | Comments

tags: medical ethics, surgery

Why don’t surgeons study more medical ethics, asks Daniel Sokol, of Imperial College London, in a provocative article in the BMJ.The Royal College for Surgeons, he notes, has no permanent ethics committee.

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Medical oaths less of a moral compass for doctors

Jared Yee | 07 April 2011 | Comments

tags: medical ethics, professionalism

While most doctors participate in a medical school oath ceremony, few believe that this rite of passage has strongly shaped their sense of professionalism

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Do neo-Nazis deserve medical treatment?

Michael Cook | 21 January 2011 | Comments

tags: medical ethics, professionalism, tattoos

German surgeon refuses to operate