Advanced Medical Care and Medical Ethics

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Medical Ethics

IT is customary at the beginning of this address to refer to the changes which have taken place in the Staff of the Hospital during the year which has elapsed since the last Annual Oration. WVe have first to record with regret the death of a former member of our Dental Staff, Mr. WVilliam Muirhead Hunter, which took place on 26th MIay of tllis Nyear. Mr. Hunter was a native of Stranraer who qua...

Imagination, literature, medical ethics and medical practice.

Without imagination-without an actively cultivated imagination-not only do health care workers themselves suffer, but so too do their patients, argues Dr Anne Scott in this issue of the journal.' 2 Why? Because only by being able to imagine what it is like to be the other person, the patient, only by being able to enter imaginatively into the world of the patient, is the health care professiona...

Medical ethics

Mutual trust and relationship between doctors and patients is an important factor of treatment plan. Changing trends in medical field does affect this relationship. This article reviews the basic code of conduct for every medical practitioner.

Medical ethics.

The relevance of medical ethics to daily practice should be obvious to all doctors, but the relationship between 'ethics and practice' raises many complex moral issues. 'Medical ethics is not a new subject, but a vital aspect of all medical practice, the implications of which must be made explicit throughout medical education'.' The key word is 'explicit', because morality is a serious and abst...