In the light of increasing public mistrust, there is an urgent need to clarify the moral status of the medical profession and of the relationship of the clinician to his/her patients. In addressing this question, I first establish the coherence, within moral philosophy generally, of the concept of supererogation (the doing of more than one’s duty). I adopt the notion of an act of “unqualified” ...

visualized. The left circumflex coronary artery showed an area of 50 percent narrowing prior to its bifurcation into the obtuse marginal branch. In addition, there was a significant 70-80 percent stenosis at the origin of the obtuse marginal branch, with no distal circumflex coronary artery visualized. The right coronary artery was a large vessel and was totally occluded at the acute margin, wi...

Introduction According to the World Health Organization, at present there are 45 million people blind, worldwide, and 135 million are visually disabled, and depend on family support or care on a daily basis. Annually about 1-2 million people become blind and cataract is a major cause of blindness accounting for more than 50 percent of blindness burden. Prevalence of cataract is higher in develo...

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