With so much money paid to physicians — typically in exchange for public speaking events or professional education seminars for other doctors — medical ethics experts say doctors essentially push drugs or medical devices developed by the drug makers from which they are accepting cash.
Students will learn about topics related to ethics, medicine, and biomedical research that are of special relevance to young people.
The problem of illegal immigration should be solved by immigration policy, not health policy.
“We’re finding more and more expensive ways to keep people alive. So we have to find ways to set some limits,” ethicist says.
Patients would be scored on such factors as need for ventilation, likelihood of survival, years of expected life
Who should get a chance to survive when the number of severely ill people exceeds resources needed to treat them all?
The measure permits the terminally ill to request and self-administer lethal medications prescribed by a physician.
Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics has posted a webcast of its forum on the ethics of growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities that was held last Friday, Jan. 23rd. This issue came to the public’s attention in 2006, when doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case [...]
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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