Medical Ethics

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. Such tenets may allow doctors, care providers, and families to create a treatment plan and work towards the same common goal. It is important to note that these four values are not ranked in order of importance or relevance and that they all encompass values pert ...more

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
My Sister's Keeper
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
State of Wonder
Never Let Me Go
When Breath Becomes Air
Midwives
You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics, with Philosophical, Legal, and Historical Backgrounds
Uprooted by Peter J. BoniThe Foxhunter by Dr Andrew J RynneWonder Drug by Jennifer VanderbesThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Good Doctor by Barron H. Lerner
Medical Ethics
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Abhijit Naskar
Doctor Not Butcher (Medical Anthem Sonnet) We are the Doctors, Our worship is to the ailing. We don't bow to politicians, Nor to bureaucratic bullying. Service to the sick is service to the divine. There is no greater divinity, than being a human lifeline. We don't recognize borders, We don't recognize states. Patientcare is our national anthem, Reward of medicine is smiling patients. Dead doctor postpones death, Living doctor improves life. While butcher doctors monetize malady, To empower ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Stephen Heartland
If you go to the grocery store and buy food, the ingredients are on the label, and you can look at it and determine if you want the item for yourself and your family. This should be done with vaccines as well.... ...Perhaps the reason Big Pharma, the doctors, and the nurses make the ingredients more difficult to find is that the recipients of these vaccines would be more reluctant to take these products if they knew what was in them. Eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs) does not seem l ...more
Stephen Heartland, Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States

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