MEDICAL ETHICS AND MEDICAL JOURNALS.

Statistics and ethics in medical research. VIII-Improving the quality of statistics in medical journals.

Medical journals are dead. Long live medical journals.

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors The year is 2003. The world’s leading medical journal has gone bankrupt. Three leading Englishlanguage cardiology journals are merging. Some general medical journals are thriving; others have begun to founder. Dr. Harold Varmus has received the Nobel Peace Prize. The tidal wave that led to these events is PubMed Central, a central, entirely e...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Medical Ethics

IT is customary at the beginning of this address to refer to the changes which have taken place in the Staff of the Hospital during the year which has elapsed since the last Annual Oration. WVe have first to record with regret the death of a former member of our Dental Staff, Mr. WVilliam Muirhead Hunter, which took place on 26th MIay of tllis Nyear. Mr. Hunter was a native of Stranraer who qua...

Imagination, literature, medical ethics and medical practice.

Without imagination-without an actively cultivated imagination-not only do health care workers themselves suffer, but so too do their patients, argues Dr Anne Scott in this issue of the journal.' 2 Why? Because only by being able to imagine what it is like to be the other person, the patient, only by being able to enter imaginatively into the world of the patient, is the health care professiona...