Barker et al argue that the ultimate goal of medicine is to cure and prevent disease and, because assisted dying is not in ...

‘Advancing the public interest’ is a criterion for de-identified data use for research via several national data platforms and biobanks. This may be referred to via cognate terms such as public ...

Non-compliance is a label often used about patients who do not follow therapeutic advice. This paper analyses the notion of compliance, and tries to show that this notion is inextricably bound to a ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT have several potential clinical applications, but their use for clinical documentation remains underexplored. AI-generated clinical ...

Doctors have an ethical and legal duty to respect patient confidentiality. We consider the basis for this duty, looking particularly at the meaning and value of autonomy in health care. Enabling ...

This paper will examine a sample case encountered by ambulance staff in the context of the basic principles of medical ethics. An accident takes place on an intercity highway. Ambulance staff pick up ...

Objectives: The mental health legislation of most developed countries includes either a dangerousness criterion or an obligatory dangerousness criterion (ODC). A dangerousness criterion holds that ...

As support for clinical ethics committees in the UK grows, care must be taken to define their function, membership and method of working and the status of their decisions. The modern practice of ...