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Patient Modesty: Volume 57 26 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Humility and Humiliation: Continuing on with the patient modesty discussion, there is the suggestion that a bit more humility in the medical system might mitigate against patient humiliation. But to ...
"Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" but to Others DON'T TOUCH!: The Current Gallup Poll Study on Social and Medical Ethics Issues 10 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
Ethics is like that. What ethical decision may seem to one beholder as the most obvious right thing to accept or do, to another eye that decision is totally wrong and may pose hazards. And yet opinion...
"WITHOUT THE BREAD OF LIFE, YOU ARE TOAST": As a Non-Biblical Expression, This Means What? 2 Aug 2013 | 01:37 am
"Without the bread of life you are toast" is another common expression but beyond the religious biblical definition of "the bread of life" regarding Christ and Christ's words and its display on church...
Doctors Who Torture: Why No Punishment? 25 Jul 2013 | 10:14 am
The following article I wrote for Bioethics.net is reproduced here with permission. 07/24/2013 DOCTORS WHO TORTURE: WHY NO PUNISHMENT? Maurice Bernstein, MD Torture has been in the United States’ ...
Extra-Marital Sex: Sex by the Demented in Nursing Homes 24 Jul 2013 | 09:31 am
On August 8 2011, I started a thread here titled "Extra-Marital Sex: Spouse of the Demented Marital Partner" and I got some interesting visitor responses. Today, I would like to switch the topic arou...
Are Clinical Ethicists Looking in Wrong Directions? 16 Jul 2013 | 11:36 pm
Clinical ethicists are those who perform ethics consultations regarding patient care and who also may teach and write about a host of issues that pertain to that care. These ethicists are often physi...
"As a Patient: I Am My Own Doctor. Trust Me" 9 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
Could there be the possibility that medicine and the medical system including the schools that teach medicine and the organizations and governmental agencies which set standards all have become patern...
Patient Modesty: Volume 56 7 Jul 2013 | 12:15 am
I am sure that everyone can spot the "chaperon" for the patient in this classic photograph of the operating room used at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1892 to 1927. And I am sure that everyone can fin...
Moses' Basket: Not the Right Basket for Professional Support 1 Jul 2013 | 10:42 pm
This is an apparently supportive advice delivered to one who is in some emotional or physical distress. And though one may find this advice displayed on numerous church boards for the public's humorou...
"Looking Back": Clinical Review and Reconsideration 28 Jun 2013 | 08:57 am
It is only natural, if one has a memory, to look back with the remembrance of the event and think to oneself whether the decisions made and the outcome of the event could have turned out better if th...
