html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 42 Disclosure of medical errors in anesthesiology practice Karen Souter The Case A 45-year-old woman presents for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. She is healthy apart from symptoms related to her…
Physician obligations to the profession Voluntary guidelines and policy statements published over the last 15 years have had some effect in curbing some of the practices, such as all-expenses paid…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 39 The abusive and disruptive physician Stephen Jackson A hospital’s busiest surgeon is universally disliked because of his persistent negative demeanor, punctuated by harsh and abusive outbursts that…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 40 Sexual harassment, discrimination, and faculty–student intimate relationships in anesthesia practice Gail A. Van Norman The author wishes to thank Rosemary Maddi MD for her contributions to the…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 37 The impaired anesthesiologist – sleep deprivation Steven K. Howard The Case At 3 am, a first-year anesthesia resident was providing an anesthetic to a young adult male…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 36 The impaired anesthesiologist – addiction Thomas Specht, Clarence Ward, and Stephen Jackson The Case A 43-year-old male anesthesiologist has been drug-free for 6 years following initial treatment…
Policies and guidance on conflicts of interest are changing rapidly. The United States the National Institutes of Health10 and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Human Research…
Figure 33.1. Figure 33.1. Reproduced by permission from J. Sabin. Cost-containment ethics requires fiduciary trust of both physicians and institutions to disclose their summative integrity for patient care under rationing…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 32 The ethics of research on pain and other symptoms for which effective treatments already exist Monica Escher and Samia Hurst The Case Dr. Smith is an anesthesia…
erupted led to the formation of the National Bioethics Commission and the elaboration of what became known as the Belmont Report. The Belmont Report elaborated three basic principles: autonomy, beneficence,…
