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UrduMedical ethics committees are required for hospital accreditation and make many life and death decisions. But no authority assesses the credentials of members or the quality of decisions made.
Tag: ethics and healthcare
Medical Students Develop Curriculum to Shine a Light on the Injustices of Racial Segregation in Health Care
Medical students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are challenging a traditional model of medical education they say omits a critical ingredient: preparing students for the experience of segregation within health care.
Understanding the Expanded Role of Clinical Ethicists
The COVID-19 pandemic brought many troubling ethical issues to the frontlines of clinical care, creating significant distress for clinicians, patients, and families. Behind the scenes, clinical ethicists managed those issues to support front-line workers and were integral to hospital operations.
PICU Clinicians Report Moral Distress, Ethical Concerns
During the initial surge of COVID-19 in the United States, pediatric critical care professionals were already experiencing high rates of moral distress as they faced the rapid emergence of complex ethical challenges and the potential impact of COVID-19 on their young patients and their communities.
Public voting now open to select winners of the Morgridge Ethics Cartooning Competition
The Morgridge Institute for Research launched the fourth annual Ethics Cartooning Competition, and public voting is now open to select the winners out of 17 semi-finalists.