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Skip to content Home Topic Index JME Can representatives of more than 10 million physicians worldwide agree on a foundation of medical ethical principles Posted on July 27, 2023 by Hazem Zohny By Ramin W Parsa-Parsi , Raanan Gillon , Urban . Wiesing In todayâ s polarised world , achieving unanimous support for anything is a rare occurrence â let alone anything ethical . Simply agreeing to disagree to avoid outright confrontation is already a high enough bar to clear . It is in this climate that the World Medical Association WMA faced the monumental task of revising and modernising its International Code of Medical Ethics ICoME which was adopted unanimously in its revised form in October 2022 by the WMAâ s General Assembly in Berlin , . Germany Originally adopted in 1949, the ICoME is
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Skip to content Home Topic Index JME Are terminally ill patients disabled Posted on July 24, 2023 by Hazem Zohny By Philip . Reed Asked to name groups of individuals who commonly face discrimination , most of us would probably come up with roughly the same list : racial minorities , people with disabilities , certain religious groups , women , and LGBTQ persons . If we have extra time to think , we might also mention heightism , sizeism , and lookism as lesser-known or lesser-acknowledged varieties of . discrimination In my paper , Discrimination Against the Dying I argue that we have overlooked an important group that is subject to discrimination , namely those with terminal illnesses . Dying persons face routine discrimination in law and policy on account of their dying . I call this
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Skip to content Home Topic Index JME Ethical disclosure of information in childbirth Posted on July 13, 2023 by Hazem Zohny Kelly Irvine and Rebecca CH . Brown Contemplating what ethical care during pregnancy looks like leads to considerations of how , when and what information is provided . The provision of information is not a new concept medically or legally : it is well established that healthcare providers must ensure that patients are informed about the medical treatments available to them , and consent to any invasive . procedures One might , therefore , expect that healthcare providers would take care to ensure that women expecting to give birth are made aware of the birthing options available to them , and the harm benefit profiles of those options , so that they can reflect upon
