Professional profiteering? The ethics of physician entrepreneurship

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The issue of whether the physician's trustworthiness, who acts as fiduciary trustee of the patients' interests, is compromised by secondary income from financial links to preferred facilities or to fellow physicians, is discussed. The American Medical Association appears to use no clear ethical guidelines, while its policies became lenient in recent years. The Department of Health and Human Services are attempting legislative measures to regulate physician entrepreneural activities, and Congress will enact new federal laws if evidence mounts that patients interests are being severly compromised.

Medical economics

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The evolution of informed consent in American medicine

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Information consent is a sensitive issue in the medical community which has not been resolved, despite the passage of legislations. In the past, physicians possessed the right to decide what was best for their patients. However, advances in the medical field, increased participation of patients in decision-making and financial considerations have altered the roles of patients and physicians. At present, informed consent allows patients to decide for themselves whether to receive treatment based on the information presented to them by their physicians.

Informed consent (Medical law), Informed consent

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A new look at an old disease: smallpox and biotechnology

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Smallpox has been eradicated, but the bioscientists are experimenting with some of the last specimens of the smallpox virus in the laboratories and this has raised a number of controversial issues concerning moral ethics of experimenting with a dangerous virus that can replicate if left unprotected. There is a need to develop, study the virus structure and invent a host of new medicines to combat other potentially deadly viruses of the same nature. There are no clear-cut answers that are generated in such debates.

Biotechnology, Smallpox

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