Bioethics Discussion Blog
The blog dealing with all aspects of medical ethics has been active since July 2004 and has over 700 different topics at the time of this description. Visitors provide the comments to the issues that I present since it is my philosophy that any interested person's view of an ethical issue has merit and ethical consensus should not belong to ethicists but also to society.
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Jan 31, 12 09:53AMWith the widespread access to the Internet and all the "medical information" sites throughout, it is not surprising that "cyberchondria" (patient worries about diagnoses that they obtained by research ing...
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Jan 19, 12 09:47PMA most interesting scenario was posted on Medpedia by Scott M. Dyck which I am, in part, reproducing here but you might want to go there to review the responses there but also feel free to make your c omments...
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Jan 14, 12 11:36AMI found this visitor question on a discussion forum:" i was debating this with some doctors who say that it would be impossible to program a computer to make diagnoses as well as they can. i find this...
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Jan 11, 12 05:46PMWe continue here the discussion regarding how the concerns about healthcare provider gender selection by patients and ways for the patient to be more comfortable with those who attend them can be brou ght...
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Dec 31, 11 03:04PMDo oaths and rules make an ethical and caring physician? In the realistic and present day world of medical practice, the way medicine is practiced both in terms of emphasis or de-emphasis of oat hs...
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Dec 25, 11 09:46PMCurrently, there is a strike by 10,000 physicians at public hospitals in a state of India in an attempt to get better salaries and work opportunities similar to those in other federal hospitals in Ind ia...
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Dec 20, 11 10:08AMContinuing on with the discussion regarding issues of physical modesty in the context of medical care, there continues to be debate throughout these Volumes as to who is responsible for the contested inequalities...
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Dec 05, 11 08:16PMShould all patients be given online access to their medical records? The British healthcare system is currently considering such a possibility. With electronic medical records progressively becoming the...
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Dec 04, 11 07:09PMFrom the current New York Times Sunday Review: IMAGINE a scientist gently swabs your left nostril with a Q-tip and finds that your nose contains hundreds of species of bacteria. That in itself is no s urprise...
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Nov 25, 11 03:58PMPrivileged communication is "an exchange of information between two individuals in a confidential relationship." I present now three scenarios and look toward some wise visitors to this blog to prov ide...
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