Health Care the Most Trusted Profession
December 18, 2011 | Story
Nurses, pharmacists and doctors top Gallup's annual "honesty and ethical standards" poll.
Ethics/Bioethics
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Professional Obligations When Patients Pay Out of Pocket
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the ethical responsibility of physicians to their patients when patients' health care decisions are influenced by financial considerations. As consumer-directed health care increases the amount of money patients pay out of pocket for medical services, new responsibilities emerge for physicians.
A Clinician's Approach to Clinical Ethical Reasoning
March 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Physicians can be more confident in their approach to ethical challenges in patient care if they adopt a systematic approach to address the issues. The authors recognize that a problem which initially appears to be ethical in nature may be more rela ...
An Ethical Template for Pharmacy Benefits
January 1, 2003 | Journal Article
This article proposes an ethical template for pharmacy benefits and a fair process for using it. The template delineates four levels of decisions about pharmacy coverage, connecting ethically acceptable types of rationales for limits with decisions ...
Guest Authorship and Ghostwriting in Publications Related to Rofecoxib
April 16, 2008 | Journal Article
Clinical trial manuscripts and review papers appearing in medical journals are frequently supported or written by pharmaceutical companies, although the list of authors suggests otherwise. This study considers Merck & Co and its publication of information about the drug rofecoxib.
Bringing Ethics Education to the Clinical Years
July 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The “Ward Ethics” program is described in the current article. Ward Ethics was comprised of sessions for third year medical students in their clinical rotations. Discussion of ethical situations was encouraged within the 24 sessions of the program a ...
What Does Social Justice Require for the Public's Health?
July 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Justice is central to the mission of public health, but what does social justice require for the public's health? The account of justice here stresses the fair disbursement of common advantages and the sharing of common burdens. It captures the twin ...
Stand by Me, Hippocrates
October 1, 1998 | Program Result
The Foundation for Medical Excellence, Lake Oswego, Ore., examined, through a national survey of physicians, the impact on clinical practice that physicians attribute to witnessing a medical oath or covenant.
Morality, Politics, and Health Policy
January 1, 2004 | Book
Significant debates about health policy are often highly moralistic and ideological and unrelated to the preponderance of evidence. They inevitably involve questions of personal versus collective responsibility, government versus self-help, individu ...
New on RWJF.org
January 10, 2013 | Story
Read about the Gallup survey on honesty and ethics, what’s new on the RWJF Human Capital Blog, and more.