Medical ethics is most needed when doctors start practising. Yet this is also when formal teaching stops. This must change. I ...

American physicians have not widely criticized medical policies at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp that violate medical ethics. We believe they should. Actions violating medical ethics, taken on ...

The Hippocratic oath serves as a mission statement for physicians, articulating principles that guide their work. Its tenets include beneficence, nonmaleficence and confidentiality, but they are often ...

he ethical guidelines laid out in the Hippocratic Oath nearly 2,500 years ago are about to collide with 21 st century artificial intelligence (AI). AI promises to be a boon to medical practice, ...

As the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, spreads across the globe, governments have been taking increasingly severe measures to limit the virus’s infection rate. China, where it originated, has instituted ...

Last week I attended American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. One of the themes running through the event was ethics education. There was, for example, much ...

The Public Guardian (PG) is a mechanism of last resort for protecting the interests of the most vulnerable in society-those who cannot care for themselves and have no friend or family willing to care ...

Many states have imposed sweeping restrictions that all but ban abortion since the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 50-year-old constitutional right to the procedure. These laws have ...