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Ethical Issues: Disparities in End of Life Care
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-09)
Market strategies tend to work as a negative force when it comes to ensuring adequate health care for the underserved in our society. When it comes to health care, and in particular end of life care, color still divides.
Ethical Issues: Tribute to Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-10)
Edmund Pellegrino's influence has spanned over 60 years of service. His insight and ability to articulate the importance of beneficence and trust through the healing relationship have continued to provide a grounding force ...
Ethical Issues: Futility Policies
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-03)
Futility, in general, is the inability to achieve an intended goal or outcome. Biomedical futility more specifically is a clinical judgment that, in light of the patient's current clinical circumstance, it is not physiologically ...
Ethical Issues: Treating Patients Without Permission
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-09)
Medical ethics is grounded by the notion that we must always respect the patient's right of self determination, which means that we should inform patients about what needs to be done and seek permission before doing it to ...
Ethical Issues: Saying I'm Sorry
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-06)
Patients respond more favorably and are more trusting of physicians who provide full disclosure about medical errors than physicians who are less forthright or purposely hold things back when things go wrong. But there is ...
Ethical Issues: Communication and Prevention
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-05)
Health illiteracy is a serious and growing problem in this country. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) nearly half of all American adults (that's 90 million people) have difficulty understanding and using health ...
Ethical Issues: Patient-Centered Communication
(Center for Health Ethics, 2006-06)
A newly released consensus report by the American Medical Association's Ethical Force Program “Improving Communication—Improving Care” helps health care executives prioritize effective, patient-centered communication and ...
Ethical Issues: A Good Death
(Center for Health Ethics, 2006-03)
For elderly patients, especially those in long term facilities, the risk of death is obviously high. The challenge, therefore, as health care providers is knowing when to employ our healing powers to enable a “good death” ...
Ethical Issues: Assisted Suicide Upheld
(Center for Health Ethics, 2006-01)
The ethical controversy invited by legally allowing physician assisted suicide is a familiar and complex one in which personal rights, states' rights, professional obligation, and the federal government's sense of global ...
Ethical Issues: “…but I have no insurance.”
(Center for Health Ethics, 2006-04)
Presently there are 44 million uninsured in the United States, a disproportionate number of which are of low income. This problem has placed a huge burden on the health care system of this country and continues to foster ...
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 ...
Ethical Issues: DNR Revisited
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-02)
In most cultures, when making treatment decisions for adults, children, and neonates with end stage illness, there tends to be universal agreement that overly aggressive treatment should be discouraged when death is near ...
Ethical Issues: Ethical Research
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-12)
In academic medicine we are ruled by many masters—the need to see patients, the expectations of teaching, the desire (and expectation) to advance our careers through scholarship and research, and the ever present specter ...
Ethical Issues: Organ Donation and Procurement
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-01)
The list of people waiting for organ transplants continues to grow. According to the Missouri Hospital Association more than 80,000 men, women and children nationwide are waiting for new organs, including more than 1,800 ...
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 ...
The Ethical Use of New Drugs
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-10)
The practice of medicine requires clinical judgments within the context of an inexact and very complicated science, the end result of which has profound implication for the welfare of patients. The ethical question for the ...
Ethical Issues: Access in Missouri
(Center for Health Ethics, 2007-06)
Medicaid spending in Missouri has been growing at double-digit rates since 1998, expanding to cover almost one in five citizens and contributing to the state's growing budgetary problems. Medicaid expenditures increased ...
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 ...
Ethical Issues: Futility Policies and Politics
(Center for Health Ethics, 2006-10)
In Texas Legislators are having second thoughts about a controversial futile care law that allows hospitals to unilaterally terminate life support in patients with end stage illness. Under the terms of the state's "futile-care ...
Organizational Ethics Committees
(Center for Health Ethics, 2009-10)
The first official healthcare ethics committee convened in 1971. But the origin of such committees came years earlier in response to a rising tide of moral concern in health care. “Committees for the Discussion of Morals ...