ethics

Modern Medical Ethics

Modern medical ethics is, like medicine, evolving. It is more than “do no harm” – and this is just a brief introduction to the pillars of ethics, in contrast with the Hippocratic oath. It is from this that we form the basis for our own actions, as physicians.

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Transplant or Hospice

A nurse in Arizona recently steered a patient away from transplantation and to hospice. Was this an act of an angel of mercy – or a rogue nurse blinded by limited experience and education using her position to steer a patient to hospice.

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