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Practical tips for teaching ethics and humanism to medical students [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

MedEdPublish, 2022
This article presents the results of a decade’s experiment in creating a longitudinal ethics and humanism curriculum for the core clinical year at UNC School of Medicine, North Carolina, United States.
Ira Sloan, Katharine R. Meacham, Robyn A. Latessa   +2 more
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Getting Real About Killing and Allowing to Die: A Critical Discussion of the Literature

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2021
The moral significance of the distinction between killing and allowing to die has played a key role in debates about euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.
Andrew Stumpf, Dominic Rogalski
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Decision-Making Capacity to Refuse Treatment at the End of Life: The Need for Recognizing Real-World Practices

Clinics and Practice, 2022
End-of-life decision making is a troublesome ethical dilemma. These decisions should be made in trustful patient–doctor relationships. We aimed to propose a balanced approach when discussing this complex issue.
Akira Akabayashi, Eisuke Nakazawa, Hiroyasu Ino   +2 more
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Generic-reference and generic-generic bioequivalence of forty-two, randomly-selected, on-market generic products of fourteen immediate-release oral drugs

BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2017
Background The extents of generic-reference and generic-generic average bioequivalence and intra-subject variation of on-market drug products have not been prospectively studied on a large scale.
Muhammad M. Hammami, Sophia J. S. De Padua, Rajaa Hussein, Eman Al Gaai, Nesrine A. Khodr, Reem Al-Swayeh, Syed N. Alvi, Nada Binhashim   +7 more
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La retorica del contagio da Boccaccio al Coronavirus: i casi della peste del ’300, del ’500 e del ’600 tra fonti storiche e letteratura

DNA Di Nulla Academia, 2020
The history of the rhetoric of contagion reveals the existence of a shared imagination in which it is formed as a negotiation between fear and knowledge, between knowledge and hope, between truths that society can tolerate and how this truth is ...
Elvira Passaro
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Drug*placebo interaction effect may bias clinical trials interpretation: hybrid balanced placebo and randomized placebo-controlled design

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016
Background Conventional randomized placebo-controlled study design assumes the absence of drug*placebo interaction. We hypothesized the presence of such an interaction and that conventionally estimated drug effect might be biased.
Muhammad M. Hammami, Safa Hammami, Reem Al-Swayeh, Eman Al-Gaai, Faduma Abdi Farah, Sophia J. S. De Padua   +5 more
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Vulnerability and ethical issues faced by general practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: some reflections and lessons learned [PDF]

Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021
Vulnerability during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an emotional state that affects all of us globally. The Italian experience shows that our general practitioners (GPs) seem to have a higher rate of death due to COVID-19 infection ...
Carlo Petrini, Pierantonio Muzzetto, Donato Greco, Ignazio Grattagliano, Giovanna Floridia, Federico Nicoli   +5 more
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Knowing Oldest Old’s Preferences May Improve their Healthcare

Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética, 2020
Oldest old people’s preferences are not taken into account though their importance in healthcare planning. To identify them, we undertook a qualitative study, using in-depth interviews, in a rural area of Toledo, Spain.
Juan Antonio Herrera Tejedor
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Examining Clinical Ethics

Voices in Bioethics, 2015
The Latin phrase primum non nocere, conceptualized in English as non-maleficence, is a fundamental principle of medical ethics, and one that clinicians in the United States swear to uphold through the Hippocratic Oath.[1] In taking the oath, a clinician ...
Matt Dias
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Where Do I Go to Wait? Ethical Considerations During the 90 Day Reflection Period for MAiD

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023
Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) legislation changed in 2021; persons without a reasonably foreseeable natural death (RFND) could now be eligible for MAID and would have to wait at least 90 days before their intervention.
Kesi Disha, Andria Bianchi, Ruby Shanker, Nikolija Lukich   +3 more
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