Ethics, strikes, and the GMC.

Women and the GMC.

Dr George Percival joined the consultant staff when the new building was opened in 1936. Trained in Paris, Lausanne, and Zurich, he knew as well as Dr Jamieson how to deal with leg eczema. Sir Robert Grant, the head of a family already lavishly generous to the University of Edinburgh, was aware of the damage that skin disease could do to his employees, and was unhappy when he developed eczema o...

Ethics and the GMC core curriculum: a survey of resources in UK medical schools.

OBJECTIVES To study the resources available and resources needed for ethics teaching to medical students in UK medical schools as required by the new GMC core curriculum. DESIGN A structured questionnaire was piloted and then circulated to deans of medical schools. SETTING All UK medical schools. RESULTS Eighteen out of 28 schools completed the questionnaire, the remainder either indicati...

Southall: the GMC responds.

The GMC: size and public accountability.

Professional ethics in extreme circumstances: responsibilities of attending physicians and healthcare providers in hunger strikes.

Hunger strikes potentially present a serious challenge for attending physicians. Though rare, in certain cases, a conflict can occur between the obligations of beneficence and autonomy. On the one hand, physicians have a duty to preserve life, which entails intervening in a hunger strike before the hunger striker loses his life. On the other hand, physicians' duty to respect autonomy implies th...