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Forbidden quotes in medicine : Healing shall prevail over harming

How ethical dilemmas in medicine affect body donation

Many clinicians recall cases that stand out not for their diagnostic complexity, but for their ethical dilemmas. One such experience involved a long-time patient, a devout Catholic...

How ethical dilemmas in medicine affect body donation

Many clinicians recall cases that stand out not for their diagnostic complexity, but for their ethical dilemmas. One such experience involved a long-time patient, a devout Catholic...

How ethical dilemmas in medicine affect body donation

Many clinicians recall cases that stand out not for their diagnostic complexity, but for their ethical dilemmas. One such experience involved a long-time patient, a devout Catholic...

Medical ethics: The perils of not speaking up

Individuals who raise concerns act as a necessary check when institutions hesitate

Why clinical ethics and medical law demand your attention

Most clinicians give little thought to ethics and law until something goes wrong. This is understandable. They are immersed in concrete clinical tasks, ordering tests, reading repo...

The Church, Medical Profession, and Applied Ethics

Michael Porter, Mere Orthodoxy Because we have lost the idea of medicine as a profession we have lost a clear idea of what medicine is actually for.

Experts Warn of a Moral Crisis in Healthcare

In a stirring editorial featured in The BMJ, healthcare experts Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano, and Bob Klaber articulate a pressing crisis within global health systems—an erosion...

Integrity in medicine is quietly under strain

There is a sentence physicians have said for generations: “We’ll take good care of you.” It is a good sentence. Patients need to hear it, and most of the time it is said with since...

Integrity in medicine is quietly under strain

There is a sentence physicians have said for generations: “We’ll take good care of you.” It is a good sentence. Patients need to hear it, and most of the time it is said with since...

Integrity in medicine is quietly under strain

There is a sentence physicians have said for generations: “We’ll take good care of you.” It is a good sentence. Patients need to hear it, and most of the time it is said with since...

The Application Matters: Medical Ethics and Counterfactual Utilities

I believe, as applied statisticians, we need to get our hands dirty and immerse ourselves in the applications we try to address. This post is mostly about medical ethics and the fa...

The quiet loss of dignity in medicine

When institutions begin to fear the consequences of telling the truth, the First Amendment becomes a parchment promise rather than a living principle. Medicine is not immune to thi...

The quiet loss of dignity in medicine

When institutions begin to fear the consequences of telling the truth, the First Amendment becomes a parchment promise rather than a living principle. Medicine is not immune to thi...

The quiet loss of dignity in medicine

When institutions begin to fear the consequences of telling the truth, the First Amendment becomes a parchment promise rather than a living principle. Medicine is not immune to thi...

How corporate medicine is eroding truth and patient dignity

The first time I received care as a patient in academic medicine, I felt something I did not fully appreciate until years later: safety. Not just clinical safety, but moral safety,...

How corporate medicine is eroding truth and patient dignity

The first time I received care as a patient in academic medicine, I felt something I did not fully appreciate until years later: safety. Not just clinical safety, but moral safety,...

How corporate medicine is eroding truth and patient dignity

The first time I received care as a patient in academic medicine, I felt something I did not fully appreciate until years later: safety. Not just clinical safety, but moral safety,...

Physician vs. provider is an ethics issue, not just style

A position paper about using the term physician instead of provider? What does this have to do with biomedical ethics? I fully support calling ourselves physicians and not provider...

Physician vs. provider is an ethics issue, not just style

A position paper about using the term physician instead of provider? What does this have to do with biomedical ethics? I fully support calling ourselves physicians and not provider...

Driving medical education reform through intellectual honesty

We are nearing the end of the academic year, and I recently found myself standing in front of a room of first-year medical students offering what I called “observations.” Not punis...

Driving medical education reform through intellectual honesty

We are nearing the end of the academic year, and I recently found myself standing in front of a room of first-year medical students offering what I called “observations.” Not punis...

Driving medical education reform through intellectual honesty

We are nearing the end of the academic year, and I recently found myself standing in front of a room of first-year medical students offering what I called “observations.” Not punis...

Protecting Conscience Rights of Physicians

The following first appeared on Public Square Magazine. Would you prefer to be treated by a physician who follows her conscience or one who does not? Most, if not all, of us would...