August 13, 2010
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In the first two parts of this article, we explored the historical and legal contexts of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising, the effects of these ads on prescribing behavior, and the economic incentives to advertise. In this final…
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Posted in Ethics
August 6, 2010
By Ishmeal Bradley
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In the first installment, we looked at the history behind consumer advertising of prescription drugs. We also explored the concept of commercial free speech and why this form of advertising is legal. To fully appreciate the…
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Posted in Ethics
July 30, 2010
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Advertising is everywhere. That should come as no surprise to anyone who has lived in modern America. It is impossible to turn on the television, ride the subway, or even sort through the daily mail…
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Posted in Ethics
May 6, 2010
David Shabtai
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In a bold move, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently changed their breast cancer screening guidelines – recommending beginning screening at age 50 and even then only every other year until age 75. Bold, because the…
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Posted in Class Act, Ethics, Heme/Onc
April 30, 2010
Commentary on last week’s “Physician Assisted Suicide—Is now the time?” by Antonella Surbone, MD PhD FACP, Ethics Editor, Clinical Correlations.
Last week’s piece on Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) by Dr. Juliana Eng addresses in simple and clear terms an issue that, at times,…
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Posted in Ethics
April 24, 2010
Juliana Eng MD
Several months ago, the U.K. courts ordered Ken Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions, to delineate the conditions under which his office would be likely or unlikely to prosecute people who helped friends or relatives kill themselves. This list…
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Posted in Ethics
January 15, 2010
John J. Mercuri
Faculty peer reviewed
Introduction
The 111th Congress allocated $19 billion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 toward the creation of an electronic health record (EHR) for each person in the United States by 2014.(1) The recent…
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Posted in Ethics, Healthcare Policy
July 2, 2009
Commentary on Dr. Cox’s Tales of Survival by Antonella Surbone MD PhD FACP, Ethics Editor
Commenting on Dr. Cox’s honest heartfelt piece is not an easy task and even less so for me, as Ethics Editor. Why? Because before being a trained, published…
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Posted in Ethics
June 5, 2009
The following is a commentary on last week’s post, Conscientious Objection in Medicine: A Moral Dilemma, written by Dr. Bradley.
Commentary by Antonella Surbone, MD PhD FACP, Ethics Editor
The piece by Dr. Bradley raises a highly controversial issue in today’s medicine,…
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Posted in Ethics
May 28, 2009
Ishmeal Bradley MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Please also see the commentary by Antonella Surbone, MD PhD FACP, Ethics Editor
Consider this: what would you do if a patient with terminal pancreatic cancer told you, his primary care doctor of twenty years, that he wanted…
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Posted in Ethics
February 18, 2009
Commentary by Antonella Surbone, MD PhD FACP, NYU Department of Medicine, Clinical Correlations Ethics Section Editor
In October 2008, BMJ published a research article entitled “Prescribing placebo treatments: results of a national survey of US internists and rheumatologists.” Of 679 physicians who responded…
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Posted in Ethics
January 29, 2009
Commentary by Michael Hanley MD PGY-3 and James D. Koonce MD PGY-3, Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina
www.X-rayRisk.com - A Free Online Calculator that Estimates an Individual’s Additional Risk of Cancer as a Result of Medical Imaging
An estimated 62 million CT scans…
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Posted in Ethics, Radiology
