Whistleblowing: an ethical dilemma

Whistleblowing: an ethical dilemma

Because most organizations depend on computer systems that electronically store important data to perform crucial business functions, the integrity of these information systems is paramount. Securing company systems, however, is not always an easy task. More sophisticated systems often provide widespread access to computer resources and increased user knowledge, which may lead to added difficul...

Health policy and quality: an ethical dilemma.

Emergency medicine is on the front line of many important health issues, such as access for the poor and uninsured, the AIDS epidemic, and domestic violence. Virtually all key policy issues relating to emergency medicine deal with the concept of quality. During the 1970s, quality issues dealt with issues of value. Interest in quality is now vested in the tradeoff between cost containment activi...

Commerce in organs--an ethical dilemma.

Early implant removal: an ethical dilemma.

A 29-year-old woman recently presented to our service, having attempted to remove her contraceptive implant (Implanon). She had a knife wound on her arm near the distal end of the implant and the surrounding skin was inflamed. The patient told us that she had had the implant fitted at the time she underwent termination of pregnancy 6 months ago. Since then she had suffered irregular bleeding, h...

Authorship: an ethical dilemma of science.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE The scientific and technological progress that has taken place since the 1960s has brought an ever-growing volume of scientific research, and inflation in co-authorship. Over this period, it has been observed that an increasing number of publications have listed authors or co-authors whose participation in the published research was minimal or even nonexistent. The objecti...