Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
... resolve them and the physician's rationales. "The situations described were often handled by negotiating a solu...covert rule breaking." "Physicians' experiences in situations of resource constraints appear to be more complex than the normative literature on health care ratio...Dealing with conflict in caring for the dying patient
... relationships, shed light on complicated clinical situations and the rewards include a grateful family and a sense of both personal and professional satisfaction."...In solution, tiny magnetic wires scatter light
...lso helpful to study how these wires behave in wet situations because if they are ever medically used, there is little inside our bodies that's dry," says Bentley, who suspended her wires in several types of fluids and found that the light-directing phenomenon was most consistent when she used "molasses-like" l...Sharing clinical trial results with participants may be beneficial
... in person, particular types of results or certain situations could warrant disclosures in person. Specifically, individuals with bad outcomes might need more attention, including additional psychosocial support. As we move towards routine sharing of results of participants, future research is needed about the ...New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
...he benefit of very acceptable results in rest mode situations as well as improving nasal respiration, ocular closing and buccal closing. Novel microsurgical programme Since Navarre University Hospital designed this novel therapeutic microsurgical programme for treating facial paralysis through dynamic techni...Laughter helps blood vessels function better
...disease responded with less humor to everyday life situations than those with a normal cardiovascular system. Dr. Miller says certain factors in the earlier study may have affected the results. For example, he says it may be that people who have already had a coronary event are not as laughter-prone as tho...Beta-blockers may help broader group of patients with heart problems
...amines-the hormones released in the body in stress situations such as heart failure and mitral regurgitation-are toxic to the heart muscle. Beta-blockers keep catecholamines from acting. "For the first time, our large observational studies show that beta-blockers may have large benefit in CHF and severe MR pati...Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
...eer, basically a lesser quality of life. Now their situations have reversed," Dr. Kraus says. "It has given patients back control over their lives." Currently, about 70 patients with kidney failure nationwide are treated with NxStage System One, a third of which of these treated at IU and Clarian Health. Kidne...Acting techniques may help doctors empathize with their patients
...ble. Surface acting may be needed, for example, in situations in which the doctor's values or beliefs are entirely different from the patient's. "We suggested viewing physician empathy as emotional labor and how doctors can achieve empathy through acting," said Yao, who did the work for her doctoral dissertati...Physician roles at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
... loyalty can arise in the military, in prisons, in situations where care is provided to illegal immigrants, in f...o guide health care professionals when they are in situations of dual loyalty? What makes it difficult for individual physicians and other health care providers ...Over prescribing causing high rates of antibiotic resistance in south and east Europe
...s. The ethics of promoting antibiotics in clinical situations in which they are unnecessary should be given serious consideration. In view of the emergence of bacterial resistance and the decline in the rate of development of novel antibiotics, effective professional and public strategies to encourage appropria...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
...he article reveals how doctors can be effective in situations involving difficult decisions and differences in j...ons they don't agree with. However, there are some situations in which to go along with a decision would compromise their deepest selves," Kaldjian said. In their...Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
...eds more help--are more likely to be abusive. Such situations should send a "red flag" to family members and doctors, Beach and his colleagues warn in their paper, titled "Risk Factors for Potentially Harmful Informal Caregiver Behavior." In such cases, they say, the couple should be screened and, if troublesom...NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
...ty-based smoking prevention curricula work in some situations and not in others. It will do so by studying the effects that a student's cultural/environmental context and dispositional characteristics-particularly hostility and depression-have on substance use uptake and progression, and how that influences the...Infectious agent linked to mad cow disease found in organs other than the brain
...ntaining prions might be considerably increased in situations of chronic inflammation. "The study suggests that the current prion risk-classification of farm animal organs may need to be reassessed in animals suffering from inflammation due to microbial infection or autoimmune disease," said Nancy H. Ruddle, th...Methamphtetamine's ruinous effects on children documented in Midwest study
...why this research is so relevant." The study found situations of profound neglect and abuse, physical danger resulting from in-house manufacture of the drug, and parents teaching their children criminal behavior and a paranoid distrust of authority. The same rural isolation that makes it easier to hide the manu...15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
...eaction of untrained individuals to real emergency situations requiring the use of a defibrillator is likely to be different from their performance in simulated situations. But the authors believe that their results are significant and should encourage basic training to prevent unnecessary sudden cardiac deaths...Monkey 'pay-per-view' study could aid understanding of autism
...nd molecular studies of monkeys in such laboratory situations could yield important insight into the social machinery of the brain. Platt and his colleagues have already begun exploring the neural pathways in monkeys that govern the decision about shifting gaze to look at a target assigned a specific reward val...Scientists identify brain regions that decide where we look
...free choice was made, while the other responded to situations of conflict, when one plan had to be discarded in favour of an alternative. In the experiment, volunteers were asked to freely shift their eyes while in the MRI scanner, and this resulted in the brain region associated with free choice becoming activ......t Jefferson High was the near absence of cycling - situations in which people have relationships with others close to them on the network, Moody said. The lack of cycling seems traceable to rules that adolescents have about who they will not date. The teens will not date (from a female perspective) one's old bo...