• 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
• 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
• 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