Many of the most common ethics consults are rendered at the end of life: A family cannot
consent to withdrawal. A patient cannot give up hope and pushes for futile, inappropriate …

Many of the most common ethics consults are rendered at the end of life: A family cannot
consent to withdrawal. A patient cannot give up hope and pushes for futile, inappropriate …

倫理學是哲學之一分科, 是研究道德義務之科學, 是在研究人類行為的是非與試圖經由理性的
探究, 以求發現可以普遍適用的原理或規則, 作為倫理判斷之指針, 並使人類的行為有所規範 …

One chapter in a book cannot hope to cover all that ethics is and the application of ethics to
the practice of palliative care. All it can try to do is raise some questions, challenge you to …

Throughout my rotations at O'Connor Hospital as a Health Care Ethics Intern, I found the
Palliative Care Team to be an invaluable resource in meeting the complex needs of …

Palliative care is a subspecialty discipline within medicine, an emerging component of the
healthcare system, and a practice of caring for patients and their families at a time of great …

The care of incurably ill persons has always presented moral challenges. For families,
friends, and society, these challenges reside in the burdens of ministering to the decline of …

Prof. Blair Henry (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center): It is my honor to be named the
inaugural chair of the newly created Ethics column for the Annals of Palliative Medicine. My …

Why bother at all with ethics? It could be argued that ethics is just a series of circular
arguments that are of little help to those involved in the real clinical care of patients. I do not …

Hospice and palliative care is well recognized as the ideal model of care for the terminally ill.
As the number of terminal care patients has continued to increase in recent years, palliative …