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Acknowledging, respecting, and accommodating the role of the patient caregiver in physician-patient relationships was the impetus for a position paper published earlier this year by the American College of Physicians (ACP) and developed by its Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee.
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Recent reports that a Texas woman had her son's sperm retrieved following his unexpected death made headlines, while the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) is in the process of updating its ethics policy on "posthumous donation" of germ cells using either eggs or sperm.
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The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities voted in 2006 to create a task force to revise the core competencies expected for those who perform ethics consults and for ethics consult services.
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The latest in a series of papers published by researchers led by Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and documentary filmmaker, looked at the use of a video depicting real-life cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as well as other life-sustaining treatments often faced by patients at the end of life.
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[Editor's note: This is a continuation of Medical Ethics Advisor's March coverage of disclosure of medical errors and apologizing for errors in the March issue.]
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on March 18 that it is creating a public database that researchers, consumers, health care providers, and others can search for information submitted voluntarily by genetic test providers.
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While Rebecca Walker, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Social Medicine Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says she does not "mean any one thing" by the use of the term "justice," she does have justice concerns regarding the use of psychosocial criteria in determining individuals who are selected to receive organs from donation for transplantation.
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A surgeon and a pediatrician are among the four American physicians have been named as recipients of the first Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards.
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With the advent of consumer-directed health care (CDHC), two professors argue, contrary to the common notion that physicians should ignore financial considerations when treating patients, that it is entirely appropriate for physicians to be sensitive to a patient's financial position when a patient is paying out of pocket.
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The Montana Supreme Court issued a ruling just as 2009 ended, on Dec. 31, which determined Montanans have the right under that state's public policy to seek a physician's aid in assisted suicide, with no threat of sanction or legal action against the physician.
