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47We Meant No Harm, Yet We Made a Mistake; Why Not Apologize for it? A Student’s ViewHEC Forum 22 (2): 159-169. 2010.This essay explores the unique perspective of medical students regarding the ethical challenges of providing full disclosure to patients and their families when medical mistakes are made, especially when such mistakes lead to tragic outcomes. This narrative underscores core precepts of the healing profession, challenging the health care team to be open and truthful, even when doing so is uncomfortable. This account also reminds us that nonabandonment is an obligation that assumes accountability …Read more
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114Improving access to health care: A consensus ethical framework to guide proposals for reformHastings Center Report 37 (5): 14-19. 2007.
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33Responding to ethical dilemmas in nursing homes: Do we always need an “ethicist”? (review)HEC Forum 19 (3): 245-259. 2007.
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18Ethical human-research protections: Not universal and not uniformAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (11). 2008.In the target article “Universal and Uniform Protections of Human Subjects in Research,” Shamoo and Schwartz (2008) argue for state action to address the fact that significant numbers of human-rese...
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40Fidelity to the healing relationship: a medical student's challenge to contemporary bioethics and prescription for medical practiceJournal of Medical Ethics 42 (4): 224-228. 2016.
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603The limits of deontology in dental ethics educationInternational Journal of Ethics Education 1 (2): 183-200. 2016.Most current dental ethics curricula use a deontological approach to biomedical and dental ethics that emphasizes adherence to duties and principles as properties that determine whether an act is ethical. But the actual ethical orientation of students is typically unknown. The purpose of the current study was to determine the ethical orientation of dental students in resolving clinical ethical dilemmas. First-year students from one school were invited to participate in an electronic survey that …Read more
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13Randomization and the transactional framework for informed consentAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (2). 2009.
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19Being directly responsive and accountable to human-research participantsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (3). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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45A Response to Commentators on “Improving Fairness in Coverage Decisions: Performance Expectations for Quality Improvement”American Journal of Bioethics 4 (3). 2004.Patients and physicians often perceive the current health care system to be unfair, in part because of the ways in which coverage decisions appear to be made. To address this problem the Ethical Force Program, a collaborative effort to create quality improvement tools for ethics in health care, has developed five content areas specifying ethical criteria for fair health care benefits design and administration. Each content area includes concrete recommendations and measurable expectations for pe…Read more
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33Improving Fairness in Coverage Decisions: Performance Expectations for Quality ImprovementAmerican Journal of Bioethics 4 (3): 87-100. 2004.Patients and physicians often perceive the current health care system to be unfair, in part because of the ways in which coverage decisions appear to be made. To address this problem the Ethical Force Program, a collaborative effort to create quality improvement tools for ethics in health care, has developed five content areas specifying ethical criteria for fair health care benefits design and administration. Each content area includes concrete recommendations and measurable expectations for pe…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Biology |