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Medical ethics

Philip Berry: Teething problems with duty of candour

September 12, 2017

To doctors what began as a transparent human response has evolved into a series of deadlines […]

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Medical ethics, NHS1 Comment

Julian Savulescu and Peter Singer: Unpicking what we mean by best interests in light of Charlie Gard

August 2, 2017

We need to have an open debate about what we mean by best interests and how they are best served […]

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Medical ethics4 Comments

James Brophy on Unanticipated Outcomes: Why Jerome Kassirer’s story is still so relevant

July 27, 2017

Although Jerome Kassirer is a familiar name to many physicians of a certain age, there is perhaps now a generation of young health professionals who are not acquainted with this […]

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Medical ethics, US healthcare1 Comment

George Gillett: The case of Charlie Gard should make us question our attitudes to parental autonomy

July 21, 2017

We should learn from the success of the Mental Capacity Act, and consider introducing capacity-based assessments for parental autonomy […]

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Medical ethics5 Comments

Daniel Sokol: Should doctors be saints?

May 23, 2017

Lavinia Woodward, 24, is a medical student at Oxford University. She is an aspiring heart surgeon with an excellent academic record. On 30 September 2016, under the influence of drink and […]

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Richard Smith: Roger Bacon on ignorance and peer review

May 4, 2017

The Franciscan philosopher Roger Bacon (c1214-1294), who some regard as the father of modern science, argued in his great text Opus Majus that there were four sources of ignorance: Frail […]

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Katharine Sacks-Jones: Face-down restraint has no place in modern mental health settings

March 30, 2017

Concern over women’s mental health is growing. Suicide among women in the UK is at its highest rate since 2005 and recent data show that young women are the highest […]

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Abraar Karan: Revisiting health as a human right—does everyone have the right to be healthy?

March 21, 2017

Is health a human right? This question has been a point of global contention, and in particular has driven the highly partisan ideological views on health reform in the United […]

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Richard Lehman: Advance decisions—unthinkable thoughts and evidence

February 22, 2017

Doctors see people die, often in circumstances that they would wish to avoid for themselves. Dying is a part of daily life on stroke wards, major trauma units, elderly care […]

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Helen Wood: End of life care and intracranial haemorrhage

December 8, 2016

As a care of the elderly registrar currently working in a district general hospital, I am very familiar with the following story, and it is likely to be recognised by […]

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