Medical Ethics Advisor – April 1, 2005
April 1, 2005
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Med students learn when to label it an ethical dilemma
How and when, during the course of a medical students education, should the subject of ethics be taught is a matter of much discussion. One program at the University of Iowas (UI) Carver College of Medicine adds an additional basic element teaching med students how to tell if an ethical problem is really an ethical problem. -
Growing pains for special-needs youth
Ensuring age- and condition-appropriate medical care for young patients with special health care needs is challenging enough, but one aspect of their care that may not receive the attention it merits is the effect on a child when he or she is forced to transition from pediatric to adult care. -
AMA disavows anti-gay discrimination comments
The president of the American Medical Association (AMA), who became the target of criticism from gay and lesbian groups after comments defending a medical schools decision to ban a gay student group were attributed to him in a newspaper article, asserts that his views were misrepresented. -
Center takes on pediatric bioethics
There are some ethical issues that are universal end of life decisions, competency, and refusal of treatment, to name a few. But the questions involved and their answers seem to carry added weight when the patients are children. -
U.S. Supreme Court to review PAS law
Last year, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, the plaintiff in the ongoing case against the law, cannot sanction or hold doctors criminally liable for prescribing overdoses under Oregon law. The Bush administration has appealed, and the Supreme Court has agreed to review Oregons law. -
MDs who observe executions challenged
Recent challenges to the medical licenses of physicians who participate in state-ordered executions have been dismissed, but the physicians and ethicists who claim that participation violates the American Medical Association (AMA) code of ethics vow to keep up the complaints. -
Few minorities participate in clinical trials
Mistrust of the medical and science communities may be discouraging non-Caucasian cancer patients from enrolling in clinical trials, a research group has discovered.