#healthcare-ethics

#healthcare-ethics

Another patient has hit the emergency room, this one with a malfunctioning pacemaker. As doctors begin the complex process of inserting a wire into his chest, a question-and-answer session begins. "Why do we inflate the balloon now?" one asks. A student doctor answers, "So it'll float into the right ventricle." The operation is a success, but the doctors are pulled away immediately-first to a patient who needs to be told about her high mercury level, then to a person who just nearly drowned. We're midway into the first season of HBO's medical drama " The Pitt," and though we may not learn how to perform a heart procedure, we do get another lesson.

"The Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service has now decided that Stenning should be banned from the profession... the matters giving rise to it were serious..."

"He's expected to be OK. He's just fighting. We just want prayers for him. Just keep praying for him."

NHS staff are increasingly concerned about patients filming their medical treatments for social media, risking confidentiality and compromising the dignity of healthcare environments.

Dr. Casey Means, Trump's pick for U.S. surgeon general, has criticized health systems for corruption, yet profits from promoting wellness products, raising ethical concerns.