A difficult case study involving repeated health crises and irreversible organ dysfunction illustrates the challenges critical care professionals face in caring for patients and their families. In such cases, trust is especially fragile, and coexists with its counterpart, betrayal. The Reina Trust & Betrayal Model defines 3 types of Transactional Trust. The first, Competence Trust, or the Trust...

In the past it was taught that local anesthetic should not be used with adrenaline for procedures in the extremities. This dogma is transmitted from generation to generation. Its truth has not been questioned, nor the source of the doubt. In many situations the benefit of use was not understood, because it was often thought that it was not necessary to prolong the anesthetic effect, since the p...

We study a model in which a "statistician" takes an action on behalf of an agent, based on a random sample involving other people. The statistician follows a penalized regression procedure: the action that he takes is the dependent variable’s estimated value given the agent’s disclosed personal characteristics. We ask the following question: Is truth-telling an optimal disclosure strategy for t...

This article proposes that knowledge of cultural expectations concerning ethical responses to unintentional harm can help students and physicians better to understand patients' distress when physicians fail to disclose, apologize for, and make amends for harmful medical errors. While not universal, the Judeo-Christian traditions of confession, repentance, and forgiveness inform the cultural exp...

application of ipr and the right of investigation about the claim of its infringement, need issuing some protective orders. mostly, this is for avoiding destruction of evidences which can be effective in proving the right of the plaintiff. the purpose of this study is to find out how can protect the third party’s right of privacy in the process of ipr enforcement. in common law, there are two i...

right of disclosure of artwork is one of the moral rights of author. according to that right, author entitled to decide about whether the artwork be published for public or not. mentioned right has expressly laid down in french law in order to protect of author rights and character. we can also deduce it from iranian law. for the purpose of improving iranian law related to that right, this rese...

objective : to ascertain cancer patients' views regarding disclosure of diagnosis in the pakistani population, anxiety levels after disclosure of the diagnosis, interest in knowing all the treatment options and desire to inform their families. patients and methods : in this cross-sectional study, 147 cancer patients from different hospitals in pakistan were asked questions to determine their op...