While it is important to make parents of severely neurologically damaged newborns aware of the difficulty in predicting their child’s survival chances or future disabilities, it is also crucial to inform them of the statistical evidence about outcomes for their child’s condition.
Quality improvement initiatives in clinical medicine are part research and part patient care and pose challenges to traditional forms of ethical oversight.
The traditional triple threat model of academic physician careers can help global health researchers balance research commitments and the duty to care.
Physicians who base end-of-life care decisions for patients on their own preferences may offer less treatment than the patients themselves would have wanted.
An exploration of the types of emergency medical care most used by undocumented immigrants in one study area and the preventive interventions that the study results suggest.