One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The ...

Spontaneous surgical innovation (SSI) is surgical innovation that occurs in response to an intraoperative emergency, where ...

Correspondence to Dr Katrina Hutchison, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; katrina.hutchison{at}mq.edu.au Women are under-represented in surgery, especially ...

1 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of ...

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Feature article and commentaries A consequentialist case for permitting conscientious objection in healthcare (25 September, 2025) Free SteveClarke There is no consequentialist ethical justification ...

Correspondence to Mr Max Ying Hao Lim, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China; maxlim{at}hku.hk The practice of medicine—and especially the ...

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Correspondence to Rahime Aydın Er, Department of History of Medicine and Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli 41380, Turkey; raay{at}kocaeli.edu.tr Objective Dignified care ...

Authorising euthanasia and assisted suicide with advance euthanasia directives (AEDs) is permitted, yet debated, in the Netherlands. We focus on a recent controversial case in which a Dutch woman with ...

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Correspondence to Professor Edward Harcourt, Philosophy, University of Oxford Humanities Division, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; edward.harcourt{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk The concept of epistemic (specifically ...