Active shooter incidents (ASI) have unfortunately become a common occurrence the world
over. There is no country, city, or venue that is safe from these tragedies, and healthcare …

This paper investigates the influence of pharmaceutical marketing strategies on physicians'
behaviors. It is argued that physicians are compelled into unethical behavior which is …

From the end of the Civil War to the onset of the Great War, the United States experienced
an unprecedented increase in commitment rates for mental asylums. Historians and …

In this paper, we will consider the role of oaths and codes of ethics in undergraduate
medical education. Studies of ethics syllabi suggest that ethics educators typically use well …

7.1. 1 The genesis of the study: A few personal comments by Leszek A. Dobrzanski I have
been friends with Prof. Marcel Van de Voorde for over a quarter of a century. I respect him for …

Diseases of heads of state can affect national policy. Yet, cases of cover-up are numerous
and involve not only dictatorships but also open and democratic societies. No system of full …

This essay examines the origins of physician-patient privilege in the United States. It
concentrates an 1828 New York law that protected medical confidentiality in the courtroom …

We also know that the widely accepted social determinants of health—air and water quality
and other environmental concerns, food safety and insecurity, the availability of affordable …

The medical profession has a long history of defining ethical behavior and physician
etiquette that in the western world begins in Greece in the fifth century BCE with …

This entry examines some of the decision-making processes found in the healthcare
industry. It reviews a set of paradigms to assist the understanding of emerging healthcare …