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What are some examples of ethical dilemmas in dentistry?

Summarize informed consent and implied consent with regard to patients, and analyze the difference between the two.

I need a summary of the epilogue from Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington.

What does it mean to have "ethical wisdom" when it comes to morals and values in a health care organization?

What are the most important factors in producing ethical decisions in health care?

How can autonomy affect the ethical principles of health care workers?

Explain how tort law, criminal law, and contract law directly impact health care professionals.

There is a person who is in the hospital in a persistent vegetative state. He can breath on his own but eats through a feeding tube. There is only slim chance this patient would snap out of it, but won't be the same person everyone remembers. He is using up his parents' insurance. Thinking as a utilitarian, should the parents pull the plug or continue to support him?

What sorts of moral and ethical issues surround both reproductive and therapeutic cloning? Ever since Dolly the Sheep was successfully cloned in 1996, people have expressed concern over the possibilities of human beings ever being cloned themselves. There are two types of cloning that scientists are experimenting with: reproductive cloning, which is designed to produce a genetically exact replica, like Dolly, and therapeutic cloning, wherein stem cells are used to create new organs, such as pancreases for diabetics. Stem cells come from embryos, which are, at times, created for the sole purpose of being used for the cells, and then are destroyed. What sorts of moral and ethical issues surround both types of cloning? 

What resources are available in a hospital setting to help assist with ethical decision-making?

What recommendations would you make to a healthcare provider who encounters a situation in which a male family member assumes the role of speaking for a female patient?

 Below is a question that was asked on a Christian Website (Christian Life Resources, Inc). I encourage you to click on the link and read the response. What are your feelings? What about any administrative responsibilities in situations like these? QUESTION: Is it ethical to bear a child for the purpose of using bone marrow from the child to help a sibling?

I need a summary of the article "Recognizing Conscience in Abortion Provision" by Lisa H. Harris, M.D., Ph.D.

Identify the detriments of a Health Care Ethics Committee.

Discuss the elements of autonomy, fidelity, and confidentiality as they are incorporated in the ethics of organ donation. Organ donation, legal rights of individuals

How do patient rights affect how health care workers interact with patients? Patients rights and medical ethics

Summary of article “Pharmacies, Pharmacists, and Conscientious Objection” by Mark R. Wicclair and 4 questions.

What ethical dilemmas has the coronavirus placed on our healthcare providers/system?

What is the hospital policy on choosing to benefit one patient at the expense of another, like if there was only one room available and two patients in dire need?

Discuss the tension betweeen the Hippocratic Oath that physicians take and their abandonment of a patient for non-payment of medical bills.