Ethics before Ecomics

Medical ethics and the payment of fees before treatment.

Whether it is ethically acceptable for doctors to require payment of fees before treatment depends on interpretation of the ethical rules of the profession, the circumstances of the doctor-patient relationship, the urgency of the patient's need for treatment, and whether refusal to treat before payment represents abandonment of a patient.

Clinical ethics credentialing and the perilous cart-before-the-horse problem.

Interprofessional ethics rounds concerning dialysis patients: staff's ethical reflections before and after rounds.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether ethics rounds stimulated ethical reflection. METHODS Philosopher-ethicist-led interprofessional team ethics rounds concerning dialysis patient care problems were applied at three Swedish hospitals. The philosophers were instructed to stimulate ethical reflection and promote mutual understanding between professions but not to offer solutions. Questionnaires direct...

CLINICAL ETHICS Willingness to donate: an interview study before liver transplantation

Objectives: The introduction of the living donation in organ transplantation introduces important new psychological conflicts and ethical questions in the transplantation process. Operation related risks, as well as dependencies in the family structure, generate considerable pressure on potential donors. The aim of the study was to reconstruct the determinants of willingness to donate before tr...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.