March 5, 2009 • 3:12 am 0
Last month, a physician who serves as an ethics consultant told me about a growing concern in her hospital. Doctors and nurses “feel trapped,” she said, by the competing demands of administrators, insurance companies, lawyers, patients’ families and even one another. “And they are forced to compromise on what they believe is right for patients.” Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: 3. Bioethics, 4. Medical Life
January 26, 2009 • 10:37 pm 0
When the sun goes down in Las Vegas, steer clear of doctors.
Those are the marching orders that Smith & Nephew, a leading maker of artificial hips and knees, has given executives and sales representatives attending a big meeting of orthopedic surgeons next month.
The company has told them to limit their interactions with doctors to 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the “business” hours of the convention of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: 3. Bioethics, Research Ethics
November 29, 2008 • 8:07 pm 0
The difference between what drug companies tell the government and doctors suggests that they’re cooking the books, which could mislead doctors making prescriptions. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Research Ethics , drug companies, Research
February 16, 2007 • 8:14 am 0
It was bad enough when pharmacists who call themselves pro-life refused to fill prescriptions for morning-after pills and an emergency medical technician refused to help drive a woman to an abortion clinic. Now a new survey has revealed that a disturbing number of doctors, at the presumed pinnacle of the health professions, feel no responsibility to inform patients of treatments that they deem immoral or to refer them to other doctors for care. Although the close-mouthed doctors claim a right to follow their consciences, they are grievously failing their patients and seem to have forgotten the age-old admonition to “do no harm.” Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: 3. Bioethics, Autonomy
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