Speaking Up without Freaking Out

Time-out: The Professional and Organizational Ethics of Speaking Up in the OR.

Participation in patient safety is one concrete expression of a foundational principle of medical ethics: do no harm. Being an ethical professional requires taking action to prevent harm to patients in health care environments. Checklists and time-outs have become common patient safety tools in the US and other nations. While their use can support ethical practice, recent research has revealed ...

Mental handicapped nursing. Sexual abuse. Speaking out.

“I’d been like freaking out the whole night”: exploring emotion regulation based on junior doctors’ narratives

The importance of emotions within medical practice is well documented. Research suggests that how clinicians deal with negative emotions can affect clinical decision-making, health service delivery, clinician well-being, attentiveness to patient care and patient satisfaction. Previous research has identified the transition from student to junior doctor (intern) as a particularly challenging tim...

Speaking without Broca's area after tumor resection.

We present the case of a right-handed patient who received surgical treatment for a left frontal WHO grade II glioma invading the left inferior and middle frontal gyri, the head of the caudate nucleus, the anterior limb of the internal capsule and the anterior insula, in direct contact also with the anterior-superior part of the lentiform nucleus. The tumor resection was guided by direct electr...

Speaking up for the Clerks 1

At the end of his essay " Pragmatism, pluralism, and postmodernism " (1998), Richard Rorty writes: " Many of my fellow philosophers use the term " post-modernist relativism " as if it were a pleonasm, and as if utilitarians, pragmatists, and philosophical pluralists in general had committed a sort of " treason " of the clerks, as Julien Benda puts it. 1 Has Rorty betrayed the clerks? Well, it i...