Scylla and Charybdis

Between Scylla and Charybdis.

The ethical dilemmas of treating fulminant (or subfulminant) hepatic failure with liver replacement have been apparent since the earliest trials of this procedure. Acute hepatic failure was the indication for orthotopic liver transplantation in only I of our first 237 recipients I and accounted for only 8 of the next 300.2 Our reluctance to proceed with more cases was that unlike candidates who...

The Scylla and Charybdis

MY COMMENTS ON the future of Socialism are divided into three parts. The first deals with Sovietism, or Marxist Socialism modified by the Russian tradition, and its offsprings around the world. The second has to do with various hues of social democracy, from the vaguely Gramscian Marxist variety to the welfare state of mixed origins. The third deals with one reason why some form of Socialism ma...

Diabetes and Tuberculosis: When Scylla Joins Charybdis

Tuberculosis has been always considered a major health concern especially for low income countries. People with diabetes have shown increased prevalence of undiagnosed tuberculosis when compared to that of the general population.Research also indicates that those affected with infectious diseases are more likely to develop diabetes. There is enough evidence that demonstrates that people with tu...

Psychiatric paternalism between Scylla and Charybdis

As much as strong medical paternalism should never be exercised, some weak paternalism towards patients is, on the contrary, part of physicians' and society's moral obligation. So far, this is a widely consented position in medical ethics. What then are the defining and the justifying conditions for legitimate weak paternalism in psychiatry? In this presentation it is argued in favor of three n...

Delphi: Somewhere between Scylla and Charybdis?