Mass Burns Casualties: Ethical Dilemmas

Mass Burns Casualties: Ethical Dilemmas

Mass burns casualty disasters occur rarely, but they are difficult to manage. Management of these cases are often further complicated in poorly resourced settings found in the developing world as triage decisions often have to be made early. This case report discusses ethical dilemmas that have been encountered when treating a mass burns casualty’s incident in the setting of a regional burns un...

Reflections on Judge Weinstein's Ethical Dilemmas in Mass Tort Litigation

Some ethical dilemmas

Imamia Medics International (www. imamiamedics.org), is a global family of doctors, dentists, nurses, paramedics, registered as an NGO in NJ, with a permanent seat in UNO. It is doing many activities, but mainly the charitable services in many countries, and health related education. Their flag ship is the American University of Barbados, school of medicine. (www.aubmed.org) Recently IMI held i...

Ethical Dilemmas in Sampling

This paper focuses on sampling as a nexus of ethical dilemmas experienced by social workers and other applied empirical researchers. It is argued here that social workers and other applied researchers have an ethical obligation to construct the smallest representative samples possible. Although random sampling is considered by many researchers as the gold standard methodological procedure for m...

Ethical dilemmas in pharmacy.

Results of surveys in which pharmacy students and pharmacists responded to ethical dilemmas are discussed. Respondents indicated a high level of concern about patient welfare and patient rights in dilemmas involving conflicts with socio-economic issues, and with peers and physicians. Conflicts that might arise as the roles of pharmacists change and the health-care systems evolve are also discus...