Virtue ethics is often proposed as a third way in health-care ethics, that while consequentialism and deontology focus on action guidelines, virtue focuses on character; all three aim to help agents discern morally right action although virtue seems to have least to contribute to political issues, such as austerity. I claim: (1) This is a bad way to characterize virtue ethics. The 20th century ...

Plato's ethics lie at the centre of his philosophy. His approach to 'how best to live' must deal with questions of what there is in the world where we live and how we talk, think or know about it. So to grasp his moral theory we need to understand how it is integrated with the enterprise as a whole. Moreover, since he was a dialectician par excellence we must discover what is his method of doin...

the high comorbidity of medical and psychiatric diagnoses in the general hospital population requires collaboration between various medical fields to provide comprehensive health care. this study aims to find the rate of psychiatric consultations, their timing and overall diagnostic trend in comparison to previous studies. tehran university of medical sciences has got an active psychiatric cons...

OBJECTIVES This study considered whether the time employers allotted to medical consultations in many working environments in Argentina might be inadequate to carry out an interview. The objective was to conduct a survey to gather information on the length of cardiologic medical consultations in Argentina. METHODS During 2007, a survey was carried out that included 816 cardiologists. RESULT...