The breaking of the confidence in the example above would be seen as reasonable at the time of writing in the UK and in the USA. However you could envisage a change in the prevailing ethos of the day, where the concept of confidentiality became more or less important or more or less ...
Medicine has an explicit value system and code of ethics still largely based on the Hippocratic oath and its modern equivalents; managers however have only lately attempted to structure a value system (IHSM, 1994) in common with the more general thrust in society towards establishing an ethical ...
Doctors warn of dangers of allowing media access to reports in family court cases Seventeen organisations that represent doctors, lawyers, social workers, and children have banded together to fight UK government plans to allow the media ...
“Such is the real risk-benefit analysis of the COVID-19 ‘vaccines’. Either the EMA lacks the subject-matter expertise to appreciate the molecular science of this reality, or it lacks the medical ethics to act accordingly.” The group, Doctors for Covid Ethics, which includes ...
Doctors may have made the decisions, but they were not playing God. They were practising medicine, and medicine is rooted in science. They also work along clear codes of ethics. When assessing the best interests of a child, the UK General Medical Councilinsiststhat “an assessment of best in...
The reluctance of people to get vaccinated represents a fundamental challenge to containing the spread of deadly infectious diseases1,2, including COVID-19. Identifying misperceptions that can fuel vaccine hesitancy and creating effective communication s
Buchan J, Dovlo D: International recruitment of health workers to the UK: a report for DFID.2004. 2004, London: Department for International Development Resource Centre Google Scholar Clemens MA, Peterson G: New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad. Human Resources for Health. 2008, 6:...
Buchan J, Dovlo D: International recruitment of health workers to the UK: a report for DFID.2004. 2004, London: Department for International Development Resource Centre Google Scholar Clemens MA, Peterson G: New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad. Human Resources for Health. 2008, 6:...
Without Apple and Google, the UK’s contact-tracing app is in trouble Electronics companies are getting gridlocked by coronavirus lockdowns Tech giants will keep paying hourly staff even if they are asked to stay home due to coronavirus Postmates says it will start ‘non-contact’ meal deliverie...
The research, led by Elizabeth Dzeng, a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge, is the first to focus on US doctors' moral distress surrounding resuscitation and treatments that they believe may be futile at the end of life and has implications for the UK as more power is ...