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MEDICAL ETHICS
Is there a duty to treat patients with Ebola?
What do you do when someone expects a medical miracle?
The medical profession must remain ever vigilant
Is it corruption or a recognition of their dignity?
Against the consensus, a cardiologist says they should
There was no lack of ethical training in the Nazi era
A pioneer in modern medical ethics broke some of the rules
"Acts of an amorous nature" and medicine do not mix
Health care workers face agonising dilemmas.
Ethicists like to think of themselves as morally good people. But a recent article in the journal Metaphilosophy questions this.
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.
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.
About 10% of doctors in a recent survey in Health Affairs admitted that they sometimes lie to their patients.
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.
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.
While most doctors participate in a medical school oath ceremony, few believe that this rite of passage has strongly shaped their sense of professionalism
German surgeon refuses to operate
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