Informed Consent
Risking Death over Debt:The Moral Distress of EMTs Treating Patients Afraid of Medical Bil...
In the USA, some patients in emergency situations refuse treatment because they’re scared of medical bills. Even if they...
Subject: Informed Consent
COVID-19 pandemic, Environmental Ethics, Ethics, Informed Consent, Justice
Environmental Toxins Are a Threat to Informed Consent and Justice. How is Bioethics Going ...
by Keisha Ray PhD and Jane Cooper MBE One of the inequities to come out of the Covid-19 pandemic is an increase in the d...
Informed Consent, Research Ethics
Participant Reactions to a Literacy-Focused, Web-Based Informed Consent Approach for a Genomic Implementation Study
Abstract ndaries. There is a move toward self-directed, web-based research enrollment, but more evidence is needed about...
Publish date:Informed Consent, Justice, Privacy, Public Health
We Are People, Not Clusters!
Abstract As advocates and scholars, including people living with HIV, we have been engaged in a critical debate over mol...
Publish date:Gender Disparities, Informed Consent, Justice, Professionalism, Reproductive Ethics, Social Justice, Vulnerable Populations
Doctor Performs Hysterectomies on Immigrant Detainees
by Craig Klugman In a startling whistleblower report, Dawn Looten who is a licensed nurse practitioner at the Irwin Coun...
Gender Disparities, Informed Consent, Media, Politics, Privacy, Social Media
#MedBikini: A Lesson in Irony and the Pitfalls of Policing Professionalism
by Andrew Helmers, MDCM, MHSc (Bioethics), MSc, FRCPC The Journal of Vascular Surgery (and Irony) published a rather odd...
End of Life Care, Informed Consent, Technology
Improving the Informed Consent Process for Seniors Regarding AICDs: The Need for Bioethici...
by Arnold R. Eiser, MD MACP Our healthcare system is failing our most senior citizens by assuming they want and need to ...
Informed Consent, Pediatrics, Pharmaceuticals, Professional Ethics, Professionalism
Shared Decision Making with Pediatric Medications
by Amy C. Reese, Pharm.D. My pharmacy received a prescription for prednisolone solution written for a 5-year-old patient...
Informed Consent, Neuroethics, Philosophy & Ethics
Brain Death Testing: Time for National Uniformity
Abstract It is time to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) to assure a consistent nationwide approach t...
Publish date:Clinical Ethics, Clinical Trials & Studies, Decision making, Health Care, Informed Consent, Research Ethics, Social Media
A Novel Approach Using Social Media to Solve Medical Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Risks in t...
by Jing Wan,Yuqiong Huang, Amaneh Abdel Hafez Aljaafreh, Dandan Dong, Yali Cong , Jun Lin, Hongxiang Chen COVID-19 is an...
Editorial-AJOB, Global Ethics, Informed Consent, Research Ethics
The Role of Solidarity in Research in Global Health Emergencies
by Katharine Wright & Julian Sheather Pratt et al. highlight important ways in which solidarity between researchers ...
Editorial-AJOB, Informed Consent
Better Consent—and Not Just for When Time Is Short
by Jerry Menikoff, MD, JD In a world with far too much dissonance, sometimes things nonetheless manage to come together....