Studies have shown that patients undergoing daily nocturnal hemodialysis have better medical results and lower overall health costs than patients treated with tradition dialysis.
The author believes the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs should collaborate with academic physicians to create clear professional standards for the field of medicine.
An ethical case that was eventually decided in the US Supreme Court involves the right of patients to request an independent third-party review if their HMO refuses to authorize treatments or procedures deemed medically necessary.
The concept of professionalism in medicine has been expanded over the years to cover a broad set of ideas about everyday behavior and habits of physicians.
The medical student believes that the art of doctoring is learned continuously over time and cannot be assessed in a proposed medical school examination.