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The Terri Schiavo Crisis
(Center for Health Ethics, 2003-11)
Terri Schindler-Schiavo has lived in a persistent vegetative state in Florida for thirteen years, since her collapse and resuscitation at age 26 due to apparent severe hypokalemia. She has been kept alive with a jejunal ...
Ethical Issues: Engaging Patients
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-11)
The Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association initiated the Ethical Force Program in 1997. The purpose of E Force is to develop performance measures for ethical behavior and practices that can be useful throughout the health care...
Ethical Issues: Narrowing the Disparity Gap
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-11)
In 2003 the Institute of Medicine, in Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, reported a consistent body of research demonstrating significant racial variation in the access to and utilization of medical...
Ethical Issues: Recommendations of the Citizens' Health Care Working Group
(Center for Health Ethics, 2006-11)
There is an important update regarding legislative attempts to improve health care, including end of life care, for all Americans in the this week's Update of the Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association (MHPCA). In 2003 the U.S. Congress...
Lucerna, Volume 10. Complete volume
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
Lucerna, Volume 14. Complete volume
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)