3 Cheers for Our Peers!

Our fallen peers: a mandate for change.

OBJECTIVE The author identifies and seeks to remove barriers contributing to physician/medical students' decisions NOT to seek mental health care. METHODS Following a cluster of medical student and physician suicides in one medical community, medical trainees anonymously shared their views regarding seeking mental health treatment in light of the current disclosure requirements for medical li...

Communication with our patients, recognition of our peers.

P REVIOUSLY IN THIS COLUMN I HAVE BEMOANED THE paucity of rigorous evidence in much of our understanding of the treatment of congenital cardiac anomalies. It is true that there are few randomised controlled trials for therapeutic interventions in congenital cardiac disease. Most of the evidence we have is observational. Evidence it is, but liable to mislead as it is not randomised or controlled...

Two Cheers for Psychiatry

Critics within psychiatry suggest that too many people are being classified as 'ill' and in need of treatment. Are psychiatrists casting their nets too wide and is society too psychiatry conscious?

Two Cheers for Gentrification

Three Cheers for Double Effect

The doctrine of double effect, together with other moral principles that appeal to the intentions of moral agents, has come under attack from many directions in recent years, as have a variety of rationales that have been given in favor of it. In this paper, our aim is to develop, defend, and provide a new theoretical rationale for a secular version of the doctrine. Following Quinn (1989), we d...