Objectives—The study was performed in order to investigate how end-of-life decisions are influenced by cultural and sociopolitical circumstances and to explore the compliance of doctors with patient ...

A lot of medical procedures can be justified in terms of the number of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) they can be expected to generate; that is, the number of extra years that the procedure will ...

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Department of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3010; [email protected] If you wish to reuse any or ...

Objectives—To investigate the incidence and solution of ethical dilemmas in a palliative care unit. Design—Health care workers recorded daily all dilemmas in caring for each patient.

Correspondence to Dr Siddhanth Sharma, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; siddhanth_sharma{at}hsph.harvard.edu The COVID-19 Vaccines ...

Case 1 reminds us that patients have duties too, while case 2 presents an instance of justified withholding of information How refreshing to read these two cases! No conjoined twins, fantastical ...

Correspondence to Dr Joshua Parker, Medicine, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YE, UK; joshua.parker{at}doctors.org.uk The National Health Service (NHS) was the first ...

The prophylactic use of antibiotics has become a routine procedure in many areas of medicine. In neurosurgery, however, there is considerable debate over their use in the prevention of postoperative ...

Correspondence to Professor Luca Valera, Bioethics Centre and Department of Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile; luvalera{at}uc.cl Introduction The idea of ...

While rich countries like the USA and UK are starting to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, poor countries may lack access to a vaccine for years. A global effort to provide vaccines ...

Correspondence to Dr Lasse Nielsen, Philosophy, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark; lasseni{at}sdu.dk ...