religious and ethical responsibilities of physicians

Ethical Responsibilities of Instructional Design and Technology Discipline

Background and Aim: Generally, where learning and teaching concerns,   instructional technology’s presence had been certain. Instructional technology by having the standards and components of a profession needs ethics. Therefore, as a professional, an instructional technologist has to yield to ethical criteria, knowledge, standards, and appreciate ethical responsibilities in order to succeed. T...

Ethical responsibilities toward wildlife.

Legal and ethical responsibilities of gamete banks.

In the UK, following many years of consultation and debate, Parliament passed the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act in 1990. This introduced a system of detailed regulation of banks and clinics undertaking the storage and use of gametes and embryos in the UK. The law established the framework for the system and set up the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to implement it ...

Hunger strikes, force-feeding, and physicians' responsibilities.

PRISON HUNGER STRIKES PRESENT CLINICAL, ETHICAL, LEgal, and human rights challenges to physicians who care for hunger strikers. Controversy continues over the care of prisoners who are hunger striking at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The World Medical Association (WMA) has updated the Declaration of Malta with guidelines on care of hunger strikers, and recent court opinions in the ...

Nursing home physicians: roles and responsibilities.

In the United States, roughly 16,100 nursing homes house 1.5 million persons. Most (62%) of the homes are for-profit facilities; nearly 54% are part of regional or national chains; 31% are not-for-profit facilities; 7.7% are government-affiliated. In the last 20 years, as nursing homes have assumed responsibility for more acutely ill residents, the jobs of the Administrator, Director of Nursing...

Commentary on "providing guidance to patients: physicians' views about the relative responsibilities of doctors and religious communities".

OBJECTIVES Patients' religious communities often influence their medical decisions. To date, no study has examined what physicians think about the responsibilities borne by religious communities to provide guidance to patients in different clinical contexts. METHODS We mailed a confidential, self-administered survey to a stratified random sample of 1504 US primary care physicians (PCPs). Crit...