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Doctors and medical ethicist discuss whether doctors should participate in capital punishment
11-02-2007 · EurekAlert!Should doctors be involved in the state-ordered administration of capital punishment? In the September issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, three anesthesiologists and a medical ethicist take an in-depth look at this question in a commentary and two editorials.
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- Doctors and medical ethicist discuss whether doctors should participate in capital punishment
09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Should doctors be involved in the state-ordered administration of capital punishment? In the September issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, three anesthesiologists and a medical ethicist take an in-depth look at this question in a commentary and two editorials.
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- Mayo Clinic Proceedings provides forum for debate about capital punishment
01-02-2008 · EurekAlert!
In a commentary and two editorials published in the September 2007 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, three anesthesiologists and a medical ethicist discussed whether doctors should participate in capital punishment executions.
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- Let doctors fix the NHS
11-16-2006 · EurekAlert!
Clinician led management can fix the NHS, argues a senior doctor in this week's BMJ. He calls on the government to let clinicians and managers plan and run their services free from political control.Senior medical professionals are often branded as opponents of reform, writes David Flook, Consultant General Surgeon at the Royal Oldham Hospital. But most medical personnel support changes, they just oppose "the cynical, superficial reforms through which politicians have exploited the NHS."
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- Conscience, religion alter how doctors tell patients about options
02-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Many physicians feel no obligation to tell patients about legal but morally controversial medical treatments or to refer patients to doctors who do not object to those treatments. While 86 percent felt obliged to present all options, only 71 percent said they felt obligated to refer the patient to a doctor who did not object to the requested procedure, and 63 percent believed it is permissible for doctors to describe their objections to the patient.
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- Medical standards in 21 states based on local rule, not national standards
06-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
Although most patients don't know it, 21 US states follow some form of an 1880 ruling that says the standard of care physicians must meet by law depends on where the doctor practices, even if, in some cases, it is a small town with only two doctors. That means what is considered malpractice in some states may be considered acceptable practice in others, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
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- Predicting PET imaging's future: Diagnosing and treating diseases ASAP
11-01-2006 · EurekAlert!
Imagine a new world of detecting and diagnosing diseases sooner -- even before any symptoms are present. Consider the possibility of receiving individualized, targeted molecular, cellular or genetic medical treatment as soon as possible and of undergoing scanning that can quickly tell your doctor whether your treatment is working. Continued advances in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging are key to this future, according to Simon R. Cherry, professor of biomedical engineering at the University of California, Davis.
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- Medical error reporting by doctors to hospitals seems underused
01-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
Actual medical error reporting by doctors to hospitals seems to occur less than it should when compared to physicians' views on whether they should report such errors. An earlier, related study found a similar, although smaller, gap between physicians' attitudes and actual actions in the disclosing of medical errors to patients.
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- Researchers find heart disease in a marathon runner -- Is too much exercise a bad thing?
03-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center were puzzled when a 51-year-old physician colleague who looked the picture of health -- no cardiovascular risks, a marathon runner who had exercised vigorously each day for 30 years -- had flunked a calcium screening scan of his heart. He was at high risk for blocked blood vessels and a possible heart attack. The researchers conclude his heavy exercise regime may have played a role in his heart disease.
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- Doctors ill equipped to confront parent smoking
05-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
With the growing number of postpartum mothers reporting they were currently smoking or smoked late in their pregnancy, it has become more critical to involve health care providers such as pediatricians in educating parents about the consequences of secondhand smoke exposure for children. However, minimal formal medical training exists regarding how pediatricians can effectively speak to their patients about secondhand smoke-related issues, according to an article in the May issue of The Journal of Pediatrics.
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- How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
06-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
Glaxo Smith Kline's Alli, the first FDA-approved over-the-counter weight loss pill, hits shelves nationwide tomorrow. Whether or not it succeeds depends a large part on its multilingual, multi-million dollar marketing campaign. A new study by Wharton professors and doctors at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine provides applicable new insight into consumer thinking about health remedy marketing.
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