Medical ethics: an excuse for inefficiency?

Medical ethics: an excuse for inefficiency?

There is frequently an appearance of conflict between medicine and economics. This arises first because the nature of health and health care requires the doctor to make decisions on behalf of the patient and thus serves to explain why medical ethics exist. But secondly it is due to the relative lack of acceptance of the ethics of the common good within medical ethics. As a result while economic...

The medical excuse game revisited.

Academic policies that require medical excuses are based on mistrust of students and conflict with institutional honor codes. Such policies undermine the philosophical and educational foundations of higher education; namely, to model and nurture honesty, integrity, and citizenship in emerging adults. Instead, they encourage hypocrisy and exaggeration by requiring students to prove they are sick...

Hypoglycemia: An Excuse for Poor Glycemic Control?

What is the evidence supporting the benefits of intensified glycemic control for diabetic patients? The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and the Stockholm Diabetes Intervention Study (SDIS) showed that intensive therapy significantly reduced the incidence and progression of microvascular complications in patients with type 1 diabetes. In the DCCT, during a mean of 6.5 years, diab...

Medical Ethics Programming for Education of Professionalism

Introduction: Although the medical field is related to the Ethical issues and concepts, naturally, the practitioners and clinical staffs, do not train in the ethical issues, adequately. The lack of knowledge and professional training in this area could be lead to the both doubtful decision-making and ethical reviews, and inappropriate policies. This article considers the reform in the prof...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.