Say you are a physician taking care of a patient in need of a blood transfusion. The patient refuses the blood transfusion on religious grounds, but you know that if he does not get the blood, he may ...

The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy partners with Houston Methodist to offer the five-day in-person Bioethics Intensive Course in the Texas Medical Center. The course is productive, ...

Ethics education and training constitute a vital effort to instil principled decision-making and moral reasoning in a variety of professional and academic settings. The field encompasses diverse ...

Compared to most others in society, physicians endorse, and are held to, higher ethical standards. (To illustrate, here are ethical codes from the AMA and the World Medical Association.) High ...