PURPOSE To explore physicians' beliefs about whether physicians sometimes have a professional obligation to provide medical services even if doing so goes against their conscience, and to examine associations between physicians' opinions and their religious and ethical commitments. METHOD A survey was mailed in 2007 to a stratified random sample of 1,000 U.S. primary care physicians, selected...

It is common that in all academic systems the students must make decisions about the future by choosing among different alternatives that include professional profiles or modalities, elective subjects or optional, etc. These decisions can have a very important influence in the academic journey of the students because sometimes a wrong decision can lead to academic failure or its correction impl...

Patient safety regarding wrong site surgery has been one of the priority issues in surgical fields including that of spine care. Since the wrong-side surgery in the DM foot patient was reported on a public mass media in 1996, the wrong-site surgery issue has attracted wide public interest as regarding patient safety. Despite the many wrong-site surgery prevention campaigns in spine care such as...

For decades investors have sought to find ways of profiting off the billions public dollars spent annually on systems schooling across world. This interest has coincided with growing marketization schooling, especially in United States, as well increased use educational technologies (or EdTech). study examines implications profit-driven for politics and spatial practices schooling. Specifically...

Date The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signatories, and we find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. An act is usually thought of as wrong only if it harms someone and to harm someone is, roughly speaking, to make her worse off. However, the view that an act is wrong only if it harms s...

All priors are not created equal. There are right and there are wrong priors. That is the main conclusion of this contribution. I use, a cooked-up example designed to create drama, and a typical textbook example to show the pervasiveness of wrong priors in standard statistical practice.

Abstract AIs’ presence in and influence on human life is growing. AIs are seen more as autonomously acting agents, which creates a challenge to build ethics into their design. This paper defends the thesis that we need equip AI with artificial conscience make them capable of wise judgements. An argument built three steps. First, concept decision presented, second, Asilomar Principles for develo...