This paper discusses some of the ethical and legal issues that the recommendations contained in the Cass Review raise. It focuses, in particular, on the recommendation that hormonal treatment in the ...

Department of Health Administration, Faculté de Médicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada Center for Behavioral and Decisions Sciences in Medicine, Veteran Affairs Ann Arbor ...

Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.

In many countries, including patients are legally entitled to request copies of their clinical notes. However, this process remains time-consuming and burdensome, and it remains unclear how much of ...

The use of black box algorithms in medicine has raised scholarly concerns due to their opaqueness and lack of trustworthiness. Concerns about potential bias, accountability and responsibility, patient ...

HIV cure research holds great potential to eradicate HIV, but the benefit to early trial participants is likely to be small. Moreover, participation carries unknown and possibly significant risks to ...

2 Health Care of the Elderly Department, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to: C Johnston Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King’s College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, ...

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The benefits of full ectogenesis, that is, the gestation of human fetuses outside the maternal womb, for women ground many contemporary authors’ arguments on the ethical desirability of this practice.

This pilot study explores the reasons patients have for refusing chemotherapy, and the ways oncologists respond to them. Our hypothesis, generated from interviews with patients and oncologists, is ...

Whose values should count – those of patients or the general public – when adopting the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) framework for healthcare decision making is a long-standing debate. Specific ...

1 Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2 University Priority Research Program for Ethics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Correspondence to Johann AR ...