Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ethics have been part of medical practice throughout history, with principles like those in the Hippocratic oath guiding ...

Since the issuance of the Dobbs decision, there’s been significant discussion by lawyers, philosophers, healthcare providers and political leaders. The ruling has created uncertainty and confusion for ...

Imagine a frail, 91-year-old patient who is ill and approaching the end of life. When she was brought into the Emergency Department, she told the nurse, “Don’t let them put me on machines,” but her ...

As we learned from Dr. Lawrence’s recent article, the Mission Ethics Committee has a long and storied past. Dr. Lawrence with David Blackmon helped build a robust and long-lasting group that was ...

For most of my 25 years in medical practice, I have been involved in hospital ethics committees. You may not know that ethics committees exist, or that there are ethics consults in hospitals. An ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In his 20 years, Dr. Jose Vazquez never thought patients would need to be transported from his care and flown to a VA hospital in San Antonio because bed space nearby wasn’t an option.

As the role of clinical ethics consultation in health care advances, there are calls to standardize the process of consultation. The Ethics Committee at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) ...

Many states have imposed sweeping restrictions that all but ban abortion since the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 50-year-old constitutional right to the procedure. These laws have ...

Ethics have been part of medical practice throughout history, with principles like those in the Hippocratic oath guiding decision-making since the 5th century B.C.E. Specialized hospital ethics ...