The authors of a 1995 Archives of Internal Medicine article assert that physicians should engage in bedside rationing in order to contain rising health care costs, while some ethicists oppose the practice on the basis that it will disrupt the essential trust between patient and physician.
When disasters or catastrophic events occur, health care personnel must have an emergency preparedness plan in place and be able to move through disaster triage at hospitals to other venues.
An ethical case explores genetic screening and whether or not sharing test results with patients only, and not other family members who may be at risk, is sufficient.
An ethical case describes how a 19-year-old college student was charged with criminal transmission of HIV for continuing to have unprotected sex with several unknowing partners after testing positive for HIV.
A Peace Corps physician in Africa describes in his latest online journal entry the immense toll that HIV/AIDS is exacting on the people and economy of several African nations.
Behaviorally induced insufficient sleep syndrome can exacerbate morning side effects of prescription sleep aids, and there are potentially serious long-term risks.