Jane Murray is correct. There are a plethora of situations and contexts where truth-telling in
clinical practice is debated and arguments for and against exist. 1 I have written elsewhere …

This paper focuses on the ethics of how to approach the introduction of MAiD as an
organizational ethics challenge, a focus that diverges from the traditional focus in healthcare …

Abstract ENGLISH SUMMARY: Background: Nurses have the most contact with patients and
are therefore confronted by situations of moral conflict. Since nurses are trained to provide …

Objectives To explore factors perceived to contribute to 'a good death'and the quality of end
of life care in two countries with differing legal and cultural contexts. Design and methods …

Background: End-of-life (EOL) care involves providing quality medical attention to the dying
patient. It is fraught with some ethical challenges, often under-explored in African settings …

Many of us can intuitively feel death drawing near in a patient. Whether it is something the
patient says before they fall to sleep, the colour of the skin, the shutting down of the kidneys …

Background Medicine has undergone substantial changes in the way medical dilemmas are
being dealt with. Here we explore the attitude of Israeli physicians to two debatable …

Initial writings and moral distress research focused on nursing, however, it soon became
clear that others in healthcare also experienced moral distress. The narratives discussed in …

The headline-grabbing story of Sean Davison, a non-medical professor at the University of
the Western Cape who assisted his 86-year-old mother–herself a medical doctor–to kill …

Ethical codes such as CASLPA's Canon of Ethics ensure that clients' rights are protected
over and above what is simply prescribed by law. However, ethical dilemmas often arise in …