I was moved by this editorial on global health matters in a daily British newspaper by an academic medical colleague, written in response to anticipated changes in the leadership of the World Health Organisation. It is perhaps time for us surgeons to augment our administrative participation in global healthcare.
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Ethics
December 30, 2016
A most easily read brief editorial explaining in simple terms the power of a study, bootstrapping and the CLINICAL significance of risk factors in multivariate analysis. The author explains that the number of events defines the effective desirable sample size, not the number of individuals included in studies.
August 18, 2016
In a discussion filmed at the 2016 STS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, a group of experts discuss the ethics of testing new medical devices in developing countries.
April 28, 2016
A hospital has agreed to pay a $2.2 million penalty for permitting the video-taping of two patients who did not consent to the filming.
March 4, 2016
Surgical intervention in older people is increasing in prevalance but is associated with higher rates of adverse postoperative outcomes as compared to younger people. Current models of preoperative risk assessment and optimisation may be indequate for this complex surgical population.
September 17, 2015
Arthur Caplan of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical center poses a difficult ethical question: how many hearts should one child receive? Dr. Caplan presents the case of a young patient who recently received a third heart transplant.
September 5, 2015
The consequences of the flawed process of investigation of scientific misconduct and premature conclusions of the outcomes are discussed.
June 17, 2015
Robert Sade moderates a debate with Richard Ohye and James Jaggers regarding the performance of surgery by cardiothoracic surgery residents.
June 12, 2015
Dr. Robert Sade has made it his personal mission to educate surgeons regarding ethics and to help truly establish the field of surgical ethics. The Ethics of Surgery: Conflicts and Controversies represents the latest of his efforts.
December 27, 2014
The authors translated 10 common medical phrases into 26 foreign languages and had native speakers of those languages translate those phrases back to English. 42% of the translations were wrong, with the worst accuracy among African and Asian languages.