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Category Archives: Medical ethics

  • In a for-profit healthcare environment, we are constantly in a balancing act between doing what’s right for our patients and what’s [...]

    Medicaid vs privately-insured patients

    September 5, 2015
  • My grandmother suffered an intracranial hemorrhage that left her severely brain damaged and unable to communicate.  With no living will or [...]

    Withdrawing life support

    August 13, 2015
  • About 1000 universities in the U.S. follow the recent trend of having a tobacco-free campus. This means that no one is allowed to use any form of [...]

    Tobacco-free campus

    March 5, 2015
  • Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, offers physicians from wealthy countries the opportunity to utilize their medical [...]

    Donation or personal service?

    February 22, 2015
  • Is it ethical to refuse to have one’s child vaccinated for measles? To comment on this dilemma, leave a response.  For anonymity, omit your [...]

    Refusing measles vaccination

    February 3, 2015
  • A large, family-owned corporation [i.e., Hobby Lobby] is deciding whether its company-sponsored health insurance should cover morning-after [...]

    Hobby Lobby

    September 30, 2014
  • The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requires me to have health insurance, or else pay a penalty.  The penalty is $95 or 1% of income (whichever [...]

    Obamacare: buy insurance or pay penalty?

    November 26, 2013
  • The number of elderly people has significantly increased in China, and as a result, more are injured or become ill on the street. In the past, [...]

    Good Samaritan risk

    April 3, 2011
  • Doctor D operates an organ transplant shop.  Four of his current patients require a heart, kidney, lung, and stomach, which cannot be obtained [...]

    Murder for organs

    January 8, 2011

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