At the core of the provision of safe, effective, and high-quality healthcare is competent and
ethical decision making on the part of healthcare professionals. Ethical values traditionally …

There are a number of desirable healthcare practices, such as the requirement for consent
and confidentiality, and a respect for the patient, that are ethically sound and legally required …

Ethics as a concept is inextricably entwined with everyday events, whether in relation to
work, the wider world, local communities or family life. Fundamentally, ethics is a feature of …

Healthcare managers face a host of difficult decisions every day. Many can be loaded with
ethical implications that, if not addressed properly, can evolve into major issues for both the …

Perioperative medicine can pose myriad challenges to professionalism and ethical practice.
Medicine is a science, but definite end points, and predictable results and outcomes do not …

The bioethics work of hospital ethics committees (HECs) and of institutional managers, lay
and physician alike, has, until very recently, mostly concerned clinical ethics, eg, the …

The day-to-day work of clinical ethics consultants and healthcare ethics committees can
easily become overly routine. Too much routine, however, comes with a risk that morally …

SSUES CONCERNING moral and immoral behavior, professional practice, and the mature
and resolu-tion of ethical dilemmas are receiving increasing attention from health care …

Those who believe in the cycles of history must be struck by the dramatic upheavals at both
the beginning and end of this concluding century that have characterized American …

Healthcare is rapidly moving into a managed care environment in which managers are
being called upon to make new difficult ethical decisions. New ethical guidelines addressing …