Written by Ahmad Fauzi
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Medical or clinical ethics offers essential guidance to healthcare professionals and is ideally incorporated into medical education. Its instruction has become increasingly important due to rapid advancements in medical science and the diverse cultural and socioeconomic contexts in which medicine is practiced. This study aimed to explore how clinical/medical ethics is taught at two medical schools in Kenya through focus group discussions with undergraduate students and key informant interviews w
Written by Tenzin Dorji
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Personal health monitoring (PHM) is rapidly evolving across multiple domains, including military contexts. Addressing the ethical aspects of PHM is crucial to ensure its responsible deployment and use among armed forces personnel. Most studies on PHM ethics have focused on civilian populations, leaving a gap in understanding the unique ethical challenges within military environments, where tasks, hierarchy, and operational conditions differ. This case study explores the perspectives and values o
Written by Dao Thi Lan
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Ethics examines the principles that distinguish right from wrong in human conduct, and in healthcare, ethical practice is a core part of daily professional activities. Ensuring consistent and standardized ethical behavior among healthcare workers is essential. This study aimed to investigate the adherence to the code of ethics and the factors influencing it among health professionals in public hospitals of Central Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia, in 2021. A cross-sectional study using a mixed-me
Written by Rashmi Kulkarni
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Large, collaborative research programs at the intersection of agriculture, nutrition, and health (ANH) often involve human participants and necessitate ethical oversight. Due to the complexity of these studies, ethical challenges may arise not only before fieldwork but throughout the research process, requiring flexible, embedded mechanisms to detect, assess, and manage ethical issues in real time. Drawing on the concept of ‘ethics in practice,’ this study introduces a novel “real-time research
Written by Liu Fang
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals receiving mental healthcare were frequently portrayed as especially at risk, yet what this vulnerability entails—and what ethical duties follow—depends heavily on how vulnerability is conceptualized. Traditional perspectives associate vulnerability with characteristics attributed to certain social groups, whereas situational and dynamic frameworks emphasize how institutional and societal arrangements create vulnerable positions. Despite this, the lived c
Written by Gabriele Leonie Schwarz
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Intensive care for extremely elderly patients is expanding rapidly because of population aging and a trend toward more aggressive therapies. Yet, such care often delivers only marginal benefits for the oldest individuals, many of whom end up dying after lengthy periods of organ support. Taking a clinical perspective, this study examines the forces driving the growing use of critical care in advanced age, even though its potential drawbacks for patients, families, clinicians, and society are wide
Written by Samira Beiranvand
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
The concept of medical futility has created complex dilemmas for healthcare teams. Recognizing these dilemmas can help manage challenging situations more effectively and enable better planning. This study aimed to examine how care providers perceive futile care and the factors contributing to it for patients in the final stages of life. This was an analytical-descriptive study conducted in Dezful, Iran, in 2022. It involved 308 care providers, including physicians, nurses, and medical and nursin
Written by Leo L. Rutherford
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Many transgender and nonbinary individuals choose to undergo phalloplasty and/or metoidioplasty during their medical transition. In different surgical specialties, a wide range of supportive resources is commonly provided to help patients prepare for procedures. These typically include educational materials, workshops, peer support networks, and recommended lifestyle modifications. For gender-affirming surgeries in particular, patients are required to complete assessments that evaluate their rea
Written by Ilona Tietzova
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems worldwide faced extraordinary challenges, primarily due to severe resource shortages and widespread concerns about substandard patient care. The primary objective of our research was to examine the viewpoints and firsthand experiences of inpatient physicians regarding healthcare delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic under conditions of limited resources. This study employed a detailed 24-item electronic survey titled “Reflections on the Provis
Written by Svanur Sigurbjörnsson
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
A 2021 questionnaire explored the perspectives of physicians and nurses at Landspítali Iceland University Hospital (LIUH) regarding medical assistance in dying (MAID). The inquiry focused on their supporting arguments, the required eligibility standards, and preferred methods for carrying it out. Earlier investigations from 1995 and 2010 that targeted the same professional groups provided a basis for direct comparison. Questionnaires were dispatched to 357 physicians and 516 nurses employed at L
Written by Berit Støre Brinchmann
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Anorexia nervosa is a serious psychiatric condition with profound physical and mental effects. It frequently leads to hospital admission, and in extreme situations, patients may undergo involuntary treatment. One of the most demanding nursing responsibilities when caring for these individuals is performing nasogastric tube feeding while the patient is physically restrained. It is essential to identify and respond to the distinctive practical and ethical difficulties that nurses encounter when su
Written by Frederik Schou-Juul
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Few programs specifically aim to raise healthcare professionals’ assurance when facing ethical dilemmas in dementia care, even though training initiatives have repeatedly demonstrated benefits for staff knowledge and self-efficacy. Still, mixed results reported in existing studies regarding the true value of these educational efforts emphasize the demand for more precise, purpose-built solutions. The CARE intervention was created expressly to build confidence in ethical decision-making and to cl
Written by Xiaojie Li
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Policies encouraging the sharing of medical data have gained considerable momentum in China. However, the existing legal and ethical framework for using medical data in research remains predominantly restrictive rather than supportive. At present, the share of Chinese medical data utilized for scientific research still leaves substantial room for growth, revealing considerable untapped opportunities to advance medical knowledge and enhance healthcare results. Drawing on this foundation, the curr
Written by Minerva C. Rivas Velarde
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Informed consent stands as one of the core principles when carrying out research with human subjects. Upon giving consent, research participants engage in an action in which they verbally state, document in writing, or otherwise provide an authorization allowing another party to undertake a specific action. This paper offers a novel interpretation of informed consent, viewing it as a compositional act. Such an approach diverges significantly from the traditional modular view of informed consent
Written by Editta Buttura da Prato
Published in Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
This paper explores several important dimensions of the interplay between aesthetic medicine (AM) and ethical considerations, and outlines a potential deontological framework to guide practice in line with prevailing standards. The status of AM has long remained contentious. It continues to lack well-defined practical and moral boundaries, including within scholarly environments, given that its primary goal is to refine personal appearance rather than treat illness. In the current landscape, add
