Ethical Issues in Medicine

Disclosing Conflicts of Interest Protects Integrity, Ensures Patient Trust

Publish Date October 30, 2019

Physicians must be open about secondary interests such as financial gain that have the potential to bias their clinical judgment.

Should Aging Physicians Be Required to Undergo Cognitive Testing? 3 Experts Weigh In

Publish Date October 21, 2019

The issue of aging physicians poses serious challenges to the medical profession, with concerns that judgment or skills might decline with age.

Training in Ethics and Prescribing May Curb Opioid Overprescribing

Publish Date August 22, 2019

As opioid overprescribing is a key contributor to the current opioid crisis, implementing appropriate prescribing strategies in medical education may prepare future physicians to appropriately and ethically prescribe opioids.

Targeting Patient Mindset as a Therapeutic Approach in the Setting of Cancer

Publish Date October 8, 2019

A call to action suggests cancer care should include interventions that help patients change how they think of their cancer and its treatment course.

Fernweh: Understanding Cancer Patients’ Longing for What They Will Miss

Publish Date September 4, 2019

Patients with cancer will eventually have to cope with unique feelings of loss. The loss of their future life plans. Fernweh, a German that means farsickness, may explain those feelings.

How Gratitude Can Help Resolve Ethical Dilemmas

Publish Date September 1, 2019

Gratitude may be a valuable tool that helps clinicians to develop “moral clarity” by improving the quality of their thought processes.

Does religion have a place in medicine?

Publish Date July 19, 2019

Benjamin Frush MD, a resident in internal medicine-pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, argues in favor of a role that physicians can play in integrating religion into their clinical practice. Rob Poole MB, FRCPsych, contends that physicians should never incorporate a religious element into clinical practice.

The Role of Predictive Analytics in Clinical Care

Publish Date July 16, 2019

Predictive analytics could improve care, but also compromise a physician’s ability to act in a patient’s best interest

Health Professionals Supportive of Medicinal Cannabis

Publish Date May 10, 2019

However, across medicine, pharmacy, and nursing, providers need more information

Responding to Patients’ Discriminatory Comments

Publish Date April 29, 2019

Health care professionals have the right to protect themselves from unjust discrimination, but doing so should not interfere with their professional commitments to promote patient’s access to care, even when patients exhibit objectionable behavior.