Dental malpractice liabilities – ethical and legal considerations





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Dental malpractice, ethical, legal, negligence,

This consensus statement asks key questions regarding the status of ICU resources in SA, especially regarding ICU admission, rationing and triage.





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South Africa, Intensive Care Unit, resources, triage, policy- making, frontline.

The conduct of clinical trials, during outbreaks, poses many ethical challenges which need to be addressed.





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ethics, clinical research, outbreak, epidemic

ethics The presence of implicit biases among healthcare professional and the effect on quality of clinical care is a cause for concern. This review examines the evidence that healthcare professionals display implicit biases towards patients. Keywords: Implicit bias, Prejudice, Stereotyping, Attitud…

Research involving the exchange or transfer of human biological materials (HBMs) requires specialised legal and ethical knowledge relating to multiple governance frameworks.





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Ethics, biological materials, transfer

ethics




This article discusses reflections on ethical and methodological challenges when conducting separate interviews with individuals in dyads in rural South Africa.





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Dyads, Adolescents, Older carers, Confidentiality, Ethics, Separate interviews

This study will discuss the ethical and legal implications of patients being viewed as consumers of health care in the newly planned National Health Insurance Act. Keywords: Patients, Consumers, Health care, Consumerism, Commodification, Autonomy, Rights, Ethical, Legal, South African

Everything you need to know about peri-operative ethical issues related to Jehovah’s witness patients.





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Jehovah’s witness; ethics; peri-operative ethical issues;

Although we think of medicine as alleviating suffering and violence, it is possible that practitioners may be construed as violent when performing certain procedures. This article describes the paradox of violence in medicine. Keywords: Violence and medicine Structural violence Metaphorical violenc…

Everything you need to know about informed consent in trauma patients and strategies to make you a better clinician in trauma!





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Informed consent, Trauma, Ethics