ethics

Model Policy on “Non-beneficial Treatment”

[Click here to go to SDCMS' Bioethics Commission "Model Hospital Policy on Non-beneficial Treatment and Conflict Resolution."]

With Liberty and Justice for All

Note: May I acknowledge my belief (and bias), based on my life experience, that a single-payer system would best serve the nation.

Liberty and justice. Let us look at each of these two core values of the American experience in light of the current access to healthcare crisis.

July 2009 "San Diego Physician" • Ethics in Medicine

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Features With Liberty and Justice for All Ellen Beck, MD Approaching Ventilator Withdrawal Laurel H. Herbst, MD, and Steven Oppenheim, MD Commercial Credit Is Available Benjamin Pimentel Eric J. Topol, MD Pandemics Brian Snyder, MD Reflections on Leaving San Diego Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH Remembering Jan Niousha Moini, MS IV Challenging Symptoms? Expert Advice. Laurel H. Herbst, MD Myrtle’s Story Adapted by Lynette Cederquist, MD, and Paula Goodman-Crews Charging for Medical Record Copies • Reporting Tuberculosis • Buying the "CPLH" Marisol Gonzalez You’ve Reported a Disease to Public Health Michele M. Ginsberg, MD Model Hospital Policy on Non-beneficial Treatment and Conflict Resolution SDCMS Bioethics Commission Model Policy on “Non-beneficial Treatment” Lynette Cederquist, MD Interview With Nick Macchione, MS, MPH, FACHE "San Diego Physician"

Unethical Medical Expert Witness Testimony

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.” — Machiavelli, The Prince

If you are completely satisfied with the state of medical jurisprudence in this country, do not read any further.