Search results for "Ethics"
A different kind of competency
Juan Lopez, a Hispanic man with limited English proficiency, is admitted to your hospital with severe abdominal pain. You think he needs surgery, but he insists that the pain is the result of a hex, and requests treatment from a witch doctor. How do you respond?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/cover.htm
15 Mar 2008
Cultural differences complicate a terminal diagnosis
Cultural differences complicate a terminal diagnosis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/ethics.htm
15 Apr 2008
Deciding about CPR when a DNR order is confusing
Deciding about CPR when a DNR order is confusing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/cpr.htm
15 May 2008
Becoming a better ward attending
Two experts discuss 10 modifiable behaviors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/attending.htm
15 May 2008
Journal Watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about ventilator allocation in disasters, MRSA screening, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/journal.htm
15 May 2008
When a treatment is worse than the disease
When a treatment is worse than the disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/treatment.htm
15 Jun 2008
In the News
CDC reports sharp rise in kidney disease hospitalizations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/itn.htm
15 Jun 2008
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about heart failure after noncardiac surgery, in-hospital PCI, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/journal.htm
15 Jun 2008
Medical ethics in the line of fire
Physicians debate dilemmas posed by the war on terror.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/ethics.htm
15 Jul 2008
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Readers respond to CAM, alternative scheduling.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/letters.htm
15 Jul 2008