An unwarranted assumption of professional duties

Duties to rescue: individual, professional and institutional.

Clinicians and researchers can often rescue patients or research participants from serious harms. Indeed, they often have a duty to do so—a duty to rescue. Duties to rescue are frequently discussed in the medical ethics literature, but according to Tina Rulli and Joseph Millum they are under-theorised and more problematic than is normally acknowledged. Rulli and Millum outline two widely discus...

Insulin glargine and malignancy: an unwarranted alarm.

www.thelancet.com Vol 374 August 15, 2009 511 and for the rest by perceived increased bleeding risk. The last was based on inability to comply with monitoring by international normalised ratio, predisposition to falling or head trauma, persistent blood pressure above 160/100 mm Hg, previous serious bleeding on warfarin, severe alcohol misuse for more than 2 years, peptic ulcer disease, thromboc...

Testing for the Unconfoundedness Assumption Using an Instrumental Assumption

The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption (exogeneity of the treatment) or on the availability of an instrument. When available, instruments may also be used to test for the unconfoundedness assumption. In this paper, we present a set of assumptions on an instrumental variable which allows us...

An Assumption-Based TMS

Unwarranted Assumptions about Children's Testimonial Accuracy.

We examine eight unwarranted assumptions made by expert witnesses, forensic interviewers, and legal scholars about the reliability of children's eyewitness reports. The first four assumptions modify some central beliefs about the nature of suggestive interviews, age-related differences in resistance to suggestion, and thresholds necessary to produce tainted reports. The fifth unwarranted assump...