There’s been an interesting – and somewhat disturbing – development in Canada, for both bioethics and (patient) privacy, due to a recent court case. Although the case was heard in Ontario, not in Canada’s Supreme (i.e. federal) Court, it will likely have an impact throughout Read More …
In his new book, Brian Goldman, MD describes and dissects many terms used in clinical settings. These are terms that you may not have heard, within the realm of bioethics. If his name seems familiar, it may be because Dr. Goldman has hosted the radio Read More …
This is fantastic news! The Government of Quebec has just passed legislation to permit terminally ill patients to request an assisted death. This has been a long time coming, and follows from recommendations made by Québec’s Select Committee on Dying with Dignity.(1) This Committee held Read More …
Earlier this month my husband and I went to Dublin for a week. We had enough travel miles (which were set to expire) for a trip to Europe, but each of us had only a week of vacation left before the end of our respective employers’ May 30th Read More …
This is a post for National Health Ethics Week (NHEW), for patients and their loved ones. I work in bioethics, sometimes called medical ethics or healthcare ethics. My job’s in research ethics. That means protecting the rights of the patients (and healthy people) who agree Read More …
This is part of a series of posts for the 2016 National Health Ethics Week (NHEW). To mark this special week, I’m writing one post a day about medical research – for patients. I work in bioethics, also called biomedical ethics, or sometimes healthcare ethics or biomedical Read More …
