Residents & Medical Ethics Issue

Enhancing residents' training in medical ethics: an exploratory study assessing attitudes of internal medicine residents.

Internal medicine residents at the University of Hawai'i were surveyed in 2005 to identify their attitudes regarding ethics consultation based on exposure to ethics education as part of residency training. Our hypotheses were that senior residents are more likely than interns to request an ethics consultation; and providing or forgoing life-sustaining treatment would outrank other situations fo...

Ethics is the issue.

Ethics has become the buzzword of the eighties-ethics in pol aics, journalism. business, and health care. There are some inter· esting reasons why ethics is such a popular subject. one of them bell1g the publicity surrounding the Water· gate scandal and the Iran-Contra af fair Ethical issues closer to our pro· fession would be attempts to maintain life by creating a completely sterile environme...

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...

Medical ethics

Mutual trust and relationship between doctors and patients is an important factor of treatment plan. Changing trends in medical field does affect this relationship. This article reviews the basic code of conduct for every medical practitioner.