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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 ...
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 ...