Search results for "Ethics"
Spanish translation of ACP's Ethics Manual, Sixth Edition, now available
The Spanish translation of ACP's Ethics Manual, Sixth Edition, is now available online.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2014/01/14/6.htm
14 Jan 2014
New ACP case study deals with patient prejudice
“Patient Prejudice? The Patient Said What?... and What Comes Next” is intended to help internal medicine physicians respond when patients display inappropriate behavior.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2022/11/29/4.htm
29 Nov 2022
New ethics case study offers guidance on care of cognitively impaired patients
Preventive Health Screening, Ethics, and the Cognitively Impaired Patient is a new ACP ethics case study available online for CME credit.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2013/11/05/7.htm
5 Nov 2013
New ethics case study, “When an Aging Colleague Seems Impaired”
“When an Aging Colleague Seems Impaired” is a new ACP ethics case study that is available online for CME credit. This case study explores the physician's ethical obligation to address a colleague's (or one's own) impairment in order to protect the safety of patients and to assist the impaired physician.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2014/01/07/9.htm
7 Jan 2014
Ethical duties in “Talking with Patients about Other Clinicians' Errors”
A recent New England Journal of Medicine Sounding Board article examined clinicians' ethical duty to address others' medical errors with patients and examines possible solutions for both physicians and institutions.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2013/11/05/8.htm
5 Nov 2013
Balancing ethics, risks of ‘right to try’
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2018/01/balancing-ethics-risks-of-right-to-try.htm. Physicians have an obligation to ensure that patients are not harmed during the process of treatment. ... The proliferation of right-to-try legislation might create treatment challenges for doctors as well, said Tom Bledsoe, MD, FACP, chair of ACP's Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2018/01/balancing-ethics-risks-of-right-to-try.htm
1 Jan 2018
New ethics case study addresses the EHR
The ACP Center for Ethics and Professionalism has posted a new case study, “Copied and Pasted and Misdiagnosed (or Cloned Notes and Blind Alleys)” on Medscape.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2012/05/22/9.htm
22 May 2012
New ACP case study addresses ethics in a health emergency
“Stewardship of Health Care Resources: Allocating Mechanical Ventilators during Pandemic Influenza,” a new case study from ACP's Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee, is available online for CME credit.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2013/03/12/7.htm
12 Mar 2013
New ethics case study posted
The ACP Center for Ethics and Professionalism has posted a new case study, “Who Should Get What? Mammography and the Stewardship of Health Care Resources”, on Medscape.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2012/04/03/12.htm
3 Apr 2012
How medical ethics principles affect daily patient care
Is medical ethics an important aspect of real world medical practice today? Or a quaint notion for the history books based on “Mom and apple pie” generalisms?
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2012/02/14/10.htm
14 Feb 2012