What exactly is the nature of a professional code of ethics? That is the question raised by a recent editorial in JAMA which affirmed recommendations for the development of a new, unified code of ethics for health professionals by the Institute of Medi…
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03/07/2014
37th Annual Health Law Professors Conference
If you are an academic who is teaching or researching in health law, then the 37th Annual Health Law Professors Conference is the conference for you.
It is widely regarded as the single best gathering of academic health lawyers in the world. &n…
03/07/2014
Monitoring the Health IT industry
Should electronic medical records (EMRs) be regulated for safety just like any other medical device?
At first glance, the answer seems to be, “No.” After all, EMRs are just computer versions of the old paper chart, right? Nobody regulated p…
One of the several comments (which I have simply not found time to respond to) to my February 6 post on futile care urged me to check out the post, “Pulling the plug on DNR” by Harvard’s Dr. Muriel Gillick, over at the Hastings Center’s “Over…
I blogged yesterday about Cape Coral Hospital’s petition to override its patient’s surrogate and to withdraw the patient’s life-sustaining treatment.
The Court denied the petition, ruling that the son was acting as an appropriate surrogate in r…
03/06/2014
Medical Futility at Yale
I am speaking at Yale Medicine and at Yale Law later this month. One of the talks is on medical futility. So, I started brushing up on the local statutory and judicial landscape. Boy was I surprised to find so many litigated medical f…
03/06/2014
Why the way we pay doctors matters
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
How your doctor is paid may affect how he or she approaches the work. Steven moved from being a private practice doctor to working in academic medicine about 6 months ago. He has noticed a number of differences in the practice environment. He works far more hours in academia for less pay. He finds academic medicine to be inefficient—what took 20 minutes in private practice takes 2 hours in his new university hospital. If his private practice held a staff meeting, they were provided food and sometimes paid for their time. In a faculty meeting, there is rarely food, they take place before or after a long day, and there is no extra pay.…
The title of this thread clearly sets the topic to be discussed. Informed consent by a patient for an examination or medical-surgical procedure is an established ethical and legal act which has been even more focused throughout the medical profes…
On Monday the Wall Street Journal published an article in their “The Experts” format in which they asked experts in health care and health care finance the question “How can we reduce end-of-life health-care costs?” The article on Monday includ…
The following article I wrote for Bioethics.net is reproduced here with permission03/04/2014TAMPERING WITH EVOLUTION? “THREE PARENT EMBRYOS”by Maurice Bernstein, MDBabies are born with a progressive neurometabolic disorder with a general onse…
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Target Articles:
Transferring Morality to Human–Nonhuman Chimeras
Ethical Review of Health Systems Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Conceptual Exploration
Correspondence:
Changing the Discourse on Health Systems Research: Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Ethical Review of Health Systems Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Conceptual Exploration”