Social Media Ideas for Quotes On Medical Ethics

The epicenter of a crisis in modern medical care

How compliance quietly captured medical ethics

There is a fifth pillar of American medical ethics. It was never voted on, never formally adopted, and never appears in Beauchamp and Childress. It governs clinical conduct more re...

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...

Pope issues clarion call for defense of human life, dignity in medicine

“Medicine,” said Pope Leo XIV, “can never become the servant of programmed death.”

Why ethical leadership in medicine is so rare

Medicine likes to imagine that leadership follows predictable paths. We talk about “career tracks,” “pipelines,” and “development pathways” as if the profession reliably produces c...

Good doctors leave medicine when integrity costs them

Medicine tells itself a reassuring story: Excellence is rewarded, integrity is recognized, and systems ultimately support the clinicians who work to make them better. But anyone wh...

Medbots & Autodocs

In science fiction automated medical services are common. One example is the autodoc—an autonomous robotic pod that treats the patient within its confines. Medbots, as distinct fro...

The one question that measures physician integrity

There comes a night, somewhere near the end of a long career, when a physician sits alone with himself after the corridors have emptied and the pagers have gone quiet. He turns the...

Would you trust a doctor who helps people die?

by Katie Musgrave, Telegraph Many physicians are not willing to end a life, so we should be worried about those who are Having worked as a medic for more than 15 years, I have freq...

Crossing the Line: Nebraska Orthopedic Surgeon Faces Misconduct Allegations

Patients trust physicians with their lives, hospitals trust them with their reputations, and colleagues trust them to foster a safe, professional workplace.

Quote of the day by Sigmund Freud: “The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in ac...

Bearing witness in medicine begins after time of death

“Time of death, 17:49.” “Let’s pause for a moment of silence.” Stillness settles over the room. What had been a flurry of activity becomes something different. Something reverent....

Idealism vs. realism in medicine, and when to let go

An excerpt from From Starship to Sickbed: Star Trek and the Meaning of Medicine. “The City on the Edge of Forever,” widely regarded as Star Trek: The Original Series at its best, u...

Xenotransplantation ethics tests our moral frameworks

Xenotransplantation, the transplantation of animal organs, tissues, or cells into humans, has rapidly transitioned from speculative science to a clinical reality. It is driven by a...

A New Case for Medical-Aid-In-Dying? 

By Christopher L. Ragusa, Jr, Public Discourse Apart from any further consideration of ultimate intention, euthanasia and assisted suicide are actions that directly and purposely s...

Doctors should work for good of the patient, not facilitate suicide, says Christian Medical Fellowship

Suicide is always a tragedy that should be resisted, the CMF suggested.

When medicine confuses professionalism vs. compliance

Medicine changes in many ways. Some changes arrive with public debate, policy announcements, and formal declarations of progress. Others arrive more quietly, through repetition, ha...

Medicine begins with knowledge but healing begins with humanity

A surgeon reflects on illness, anxiety and the enduring value of compassion in medical care Every year around Doctors’ Day, I receive calls from editors requesting a column. For mo...

‘Brain dead’ people are being used for science experiments

Bioethicist Arthur Caplan is using critically disabled people for research at NYU Langone Health in wards that he calls 'bioemporia,' which is an immoral practice that must be expo...

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...

No Last Rites for MAiD

Joshua Heavin, Mere Orthodoxy Medical Assistance in Dying is opposed by people of sound conscience for many reasons. Matthew...

Робив зневажливі фото на кладовищі: чи відповідає така поведінка лікаря етичним нормам

Робив зневажливі фото на кладовищі: чи відповідає така поведінка лікаря етичним нормам<p>Акушер Володимир Білий потрапив у скандал через зневажливі фото на кладовищі та п'яне...

Essence Of All Scriptures Is Doing Good To Others Is Merit And Bad To Others Is Sin - Ancient Hindu Saying

The essence of all scriptures can be encapsulated in the ancient Hindu saying: "Doing good to others is merit and doing bad to others is sin." This profound wisdom emphas...

Physician moral injury is not burnout, it is accuracy

At 6:14 on a Monday morning, I open the electronic medical record (EMR) before I open the lights. The clinic does not open for two hours. The ambient scribe ran on every encounter...