An Ethical Imperative to Use Reprocessed Medical Equipment

Simulation-based medical education: an ethical imperative.

Medical training must at some point use live patients to hone the skills of health professionals. But there is also an obligation to provide optimal treatment and to ensure patients' safety and well-being. Balancing these 2 needs represents a fundamental ethical tension in medical education. Simulation-based learning can help mitigate this tension by developing health professionals' knowledge, ...

Death competence: an ethical imperative.

The authors argued that death competence, defined as specialized skill in tolerating and managing clients' problems related to dying, death, and bereavement, is a necessary prerequisite for ethical practice in grief counseling. A selected review of the literature tracing the underpinnings of this concept reveals how a robust construct of death competence evolved. Using the vehicle of a case stu...

Cultural Continuity as an Ethical Imperative Clifford

Mainstream Western ethics defines humans as rational beings. Ethics is a system of rules external to society and culture. Qualitative inquiry defines humans in holistic terms—as cultural beings, and cultures are value centered. The master norm for qualitative research, therefore, ought to be cultural continuity. Decisions for change are controlled by cultural groups themselves. Research ought t...

The Ethical Imperative to Eradicate Measles

Durrheim DN1* and Dahl-Regis M2 1University of Newcastle, Australia and Chair of the Western Pacific Measles Verification Commission, Australia 2Chief Medical Officer, Bahamas and Chair of the Pan-American Measles and Rubella Elimination Independent Expert Committee, Australia *Corresponding author: Durrheim DN, University of Newcastle, Australia and Chair of the Western Pacific Measles Verific...

Licensing of medical practitioners to use X-ray equipment.