Specialties, Medical - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

A crisis in chronic pain care: an ethical analysis. Part three: Toward an integrative, multi-disciplinary pain medicine built around the needs of the patient.

30 Oct 2008 A number of variables have contributed to the current crisis in chronic pain care and are affected by, and affect, the philosophies and politics that influence the socio-economic climate of the American healthcare system. Thus, we posit that ... Read more...

The do-not-resuscitate order: associations with advance directives, physician specialty and documentation of discussion 15 years after the Patient Self-Determination Act.

30 Aug 2008 BACKGROUND: Since the passage of the Patient Self-Determination Act, numerous policy mandates and institutional measures have been implemented. It is unknown to what extent those measures have affected end-of-life care, particularly with regard to ... Read more...

Ethically problematic treatment decisions in different medical specialties.

30 Mar 2008 BACKGROUND: Ethical dilemmas are an integral part of medicine. Whether physicians actually feel that they have made ethically problematic treatment decisions or choices in their work is largely unknown. Identifying physicians with ethical problems, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Specialties, Medical - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Training the ideal doctor] 6 Apr 2009
• [Ethics charter of the German Society for the Study of Pain] 30 Jan 2009
• A crisis in chronic pain care: an ethical analysis. Part three: Toward an integrative, multi-disciplinary pain medicine built around the needs of the patient. 30 Oct 2008
• The do-not-resuscitate order: associations with advance directives, physician specialty and documentation of discussion 15 years after the Patient Self-Determination Act. 30 Aug 2008
• Ethically problematic treatment decisions in different medical specialties. 30 Mar 2008
• Influence of physicians' life stances on attitudes to end-of-life decisions and actual end-of-life decision-making in six countries. 30 Mar 2008
• Commodity or profession? 30 Mar 2008
• Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine, 2007. III. Ethics and legislation, health services research, pharmacology and toxicology, nutrition and paediatrics. 27 Feb 2008
• Attitudes of European physicians toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a review of the recent literature. 30 Dec 2007
• Ghost management: how much of the medical literature is shaped behind the scenes by the pharmaceutical industry? 30 Aug 2007
• Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved? 29 Jun 2007
• Physicians and drug representatives: exploring the dynamics of the relationship. 30 Jan 2007
• Private or public? An empirical analysis of the importance of work values for work sector choice among Norwegian medical specialists. 9 Dec 2006
• [Feasibility and humanity in modern medicine. The ethics of progress] 4 Oct 2006
• Conflict of interest or productive collaboration? The pharma: academic relationship and its implications for headache medicine. 29 Jun 2006
• Empirical uncertainty and moral contest: a qualitative analysis of the relationship between medical specialists and the pharmaceutical industry in Australia. 4 Sep 2005
• Expert witness malfeasance: how should specialty societies respond? 29 Apr 2005
• Ethical aspects of sexual medicine. 27 Feb 2005
• [Hippocrates and the seven essential roles and key competencies of specialist physicians] 30 Dec 2004
• Specialty hospitals: their impact and their long-term viability. 30 Oct 2004

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Technical information about 'Specialties, Medical'

Definition: Various branches of medical practice limited to specialized areas.

Descriptor UI: D013040

Alternative terms: Specialties, Medical; Medical Specialty; Specialities, Medical; Medical Specialties; Specialty, Medical; Medical Specialities; Medical Speciality; Speciality, Medical;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.776;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; coord IM with field or subject (IM); with biog: Manual 32.16.9, 34.4; policy: Manual 28.5, 28.7; DF: SPECIALTIES MED