Say you are a physician taking care of a patient in need of a blood transfusion. The patient refuses the blood transfusion on religious grounds, but you know that if he does not get the blood, he may ...

Holland Kaplan, MD, is an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Section of General Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In this Q&A with ...

This course is designed for health professions students. It meets the theology ultimate questions requirement and the Identities in Context attribution. Health professionals continually engage with ...

Most if not all medical schools offer at least some introduction to the ethics of health care delivery. But there are skeptics who maintain that medical ethics courses are a waste of time, money and ...

Perhaps no profession has stricter ethical standards than medicine, and ethics is considered essential in the education of any respected medical school. A new essay by researchers at Hiroshima ...

I was offered the glorious opportunity to be one of the teachers at a medical ethics course a couple of years ago at South Dakota State University. And so the semester began, with 32 eager college ...