medical ethics

"Clinical trial" is a nice way of saying "human medical experiment." Experimenting on humans is ethical, so long as the people who volunteer give informed consent and receive a treatment that is thought to be medically beneficial.

A young man who received a lung transplant four weeks ago following a terrible case of pneumonia that caused his lungs to collapse has died.

I hate politics. Is that enough of a disclosure? Well, I hate erosion of the doctor-patient relationship even more, especially when predicated on politicized falsehoods.

Imagine this: You’re about to be forced to have surgery because you’ve had a stroke, or other significant medical problem that