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
State of Wonder
Never Let Me Go
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
When Breath Becomes Air
Midwives
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
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Medical Ethics
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Stephen Heartland
It is often after this round of vaccines in the second month that the problems with the CDC recommended vaccine schedule come to light in the form of allergies and/or other autoimmune diseases emerging in our infants. Do not listen to your doctor if they say these conditions are typical and common. These conditions have become common, most likely because all the other children have overdosed on aluminum as well and are suffering along with you. The FDA and CDC appear to have approved and promote ...more
Stephen Heartland, Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States

A baby’s individual potential, whether they’re later diagnosed with a condition like PKU or a chromosomal change like Down syndrome, is impossible for anyone to predict from prenatal genetic testing alone. Each baby’s life journey will be unique. A combination of body, mind and spirit. Of the interactions between genes, environment and love.
Jennifer J. Brown, When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes

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