Physicians need to perform their due diligence and practice caution when prescribing addictive pain medications to relieve their patients' chronic pain due to increased federal monitoring of pain prescriptions.
Physicians need to help surrogate decision makers to make treatment and end-of-life decisions for those with severe neurological damage by proving a realistic prognosis and maintain strong lines of communication.
Dr Oluwole Jegede joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Julio C. Nunes, Terence Tumenta, Carmen Black, and Joao P. DeAquino: “What Would Equitable Harm Reduction Look Like?”
A U.S. physician relates the culture shock he is experiencing working as an area medical officer in Eastern Africa for the U.S. Peace Corps in his latest online journal entry.