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    Tag: Ethics

    ‘Shameful departure from medical ethics’: the dark practice of covert contraception in Australia

    November 13, 2023

    Recently, AusDoc reported that indigenous women in Greenland were seeking compensation from the Danish government after being fitted with IUDs, without their consent or knowledge, in…

    Paramedic said wet ground and bird droppings behind his decision not to resuscitate dying patient

    November 1, 2023

    A paramedic refused to treat a patient with bradycardia after wrongly declaring she was in asystole and already dead, a tribunal has heard. While it…

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    One-third of doctors admit to secretly Googling patients: AusDoc survey

    October 27, 2023

    A third of doctors admit they have googled patients, with many more agreeing it is okay to search online for useful clinical information about a…

    Royal Commission demands ban on court-ordered sterilisation of non-consenting patients

    October 26, 2023

    Australian courts ordered the sterilisation of 14 adults last year, but for most cases, the clinical details were kept secret.  Now, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse,…

    Should AHPRA draw up guidelines on doctors Googling patients? Tell us your views

    October 23, 2023

    Is looking up a patient’s Facebook profile or plugging their name into Google unethical? A BMJ article on the subject has fired up the debate…

    Is Googling information about your patients ethical?

    October 20, 2023

    Should doctors be banned from looking up a patient’s Facebook page or Instagram account or watching their TikToks? Is this an unethical act if it…

    Paul Wappett

    RACGP apologises after photo caption sparks racism claims

    September 19, 2023

    The RACGP has apologised after doctors complained that a photo published in a member update was racially biased. Taken at an RACGP fellowship ceremony in…

    Will hospital bosses now listen to doctors? Why the lessons of the Lucy Letby scandal are not simple

    September 13, 2023

    We’ll probably never know what drove British paediatric nurse Lucy Letby to murder seven of her tiny patients and attempt to kill six more. What…

    Adjunct Clinical Professor Karen Price

    Is it unethical for GPs not to bulk-bill? Patients seem to think so  

    September 12, 2023

    GPs who do not bulk-bill have been dubbed unethical in an annual survey of 1000 people. The Ethics Index, an annual report by corporate ethics…

    Oncologist now convinced of life after death following 25 years of research

    September 7, 2023

    A medical oncologist who has studied over 5000 near-death experiences says his research has convinced him that when the lights go out, there is an…

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