The German government has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that it sidelined patient ...

Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that fact.” He provided no ...

CARE-ACE supports autonomy through bounded agentic reasoning, in which diagnostic, prognostic, planning, and risk-assessment ...

Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 24, No. 6 (Dec., 1998), pp. 394-400 (7 pages) Background—Patient autonomy has gradually replaced physician paternalism as an ethical ideal. However, in a medical ...

May is the month most American medical students finally see four years of grueling work bear fruit. Most U.S. medical schools hold commencement exercises in May, conferring "doctor of medicine" ...

A new patient-reported outcomes tool is helping to shift the way end-of-life and depression-related conversations are occurring between patients with multiple myeloma and their health care teams. A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among high-risk patients, discussion of do-not-resuscitate orders should take place prior to hospitalization, as ...

New York’s Medical Aid in Dying is often framed as compassion guided by medical expertise. But is the legislation prescribing ...