Collegial Ethics: Supporting Our Colleagues

Collegial Ethics: Supporting Our Colleagues

The goal of collegial ethics is to actively support our colleagues and to develop the skills needed to do so. While collegial interactions are key for our careers, there is little or no training in this. Many of our actions and reactions with our colleagues are instinctive. Human nature has evolved to be self-protective, but many evolved and automatic responses to others are not always in the b...

Learning from our European imaging colleagues.

ardiovascular (CV) imaging is evolving rapidly, placing new demands on our profession for training, education, and advocacy. It is likely that the need for CV imaging will continue to increase over the coming years because of the changes in CV disease epidemiology, the aging population, the rapid changes in technology, and the need for enhanced value over volume. Over the past year, we have dis...

Ethics as Our Guide

In their essay in the April 2004 issue of PLoS Biology, Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley (2004), two distinguished cellular biologists and members of the President’s Council on Bioethics, strongly question the scientifi c foundation of two reports from the Council (President’s Council on Bioethics 2003, 2004). The Council on Bioethics was formed by executive order “to advise the President o...

Professional ethics: on transmitting complaints to one's colleagues.

Precision and predictive medicine: lessons learned from our oncology colleagues.

A decade ago, a 64-year-old male presenting with fatigue and anemia and a diagnosis suggested of chronic lymphocytic leukemia would be given a standard therapy with an uncertain prognosis. Today, that same patient undergoing molecular profiling of proteins on their lymphocytes detecting ZAP-70 and CD-38 protein markers determines not only the prognosis but how the therapy should be tailored. Th...