Ethical obligations of schools and hosts during an international medical elective

One month in India. An international medical elective.

What began for all of us as a simple medical elective turned into a race to save the life of a 13-year old girl, Tenzing. She had been a healthy, normal 13-year old girl from Kargiakh, a small village nestled in the Indian Himalayan Mountain Range. When our team arrived in her village after a 4-day trek over the high pass Shingo-La we received a King’s welcome from the local “Tea Shop” owner. T...

Ethical justifications for access to unapproved medical interventions: an argument for (limited) patient obligations.

Many health care systems include programs that allow patients in exceptional circumstances to access medical interventions of as yet unproven benefit. In this article we consider the ethical justifications for-and demands on-these special access programs (SAPs). SAPs have a compassionate basis: They give patients with limited options the opportunity to try interventions that are not yet approve...

Professional and ethical obligations toward the aged.

Injury prevention education in medical schools: an international survey of medical students.

BACKGROUND Injuries account for an estimated 9% of global mortality. Health professionals worldwide receive little formal injury prevention training, especially in developing countries. OBJECTIVE To identify injury prevention training topics taught in a sample of medical schools throughout the world. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross sectional survey of 82 medical schools from 31 countries. Based on...

Concept and conditions of alternative performance of contractual obligations in Iranian and modern international documents

The approach of modern international documents such as DCFR, PELC, OHADA, UPICC, CISG in fulfilling the obligations is to increase the probability and chance of fulfilling the obligation by the obligor by accepting multiple obligations and the possibility of choosing one obligation by the obligee or the obligee to fulfill the obligation. In a function called the alternative performance of contr...