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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

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...

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.

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 Editors’ Quote:

“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.” – Hippocrates (c.460-357 B.C.), from ‘Aphorisms’ sect. 1, para. 1 (translation by Chaucer). Often quoted in Latin as Ars longa, vit...

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...

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...

Quote of the day by Rosalind Franklin: “Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in th...

Politicians who play God with our health

Dr. Arturo B. Rotor wrote Men Who Play God, his anthology on the practice of medicine in the Philippines, in 1983. I was in medical school when I read his stories and saw firsthand...

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Shared decision-making at end of life tough for many clinicians

During an episode of the first season of “Scrubs,” Dr. Perry Cox, played by John C. McGinley, boasted to a group of clinicians that every patient that had been in the ICU when he s...

5 principles for protecting physician reputation

Health care workers understand the power of a record. One sentence in a medical chart can follow a patient for years. A diagnosis, a risk label, or a preliminary impression may sha...

Quote of the day by Canadian-American psychologist Albert Bandura: “Where everyone is responsible, no one is really resp...

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...