A Healthy Dose Of Discussion

Culture is a pattern of ideas, customs and behaviours shared by a particular people or society. It is constantly evolving.

In an effort to demystify the organ and tissue donation process and encourage more Americans to become donors, the National …

Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept, related to medical confidentiality, that protects communications between a patient and his or her doctor from being used against the patient in …

A growing number of states, including Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont and Hawaii, permit mentally competent, terminally ill patients to obtain medications they can ingest to bring …

Euthanasia enables the patient to practice their entitlement to choose their own particular destiny and end enduring (consideration). But, contentions …

Culture is a pattern of ideas, customs and behaviours shared by a particular people or society. It is constantly evolving.

What kind of treatments and interventions, then are morally obligatory, and which are not?

What qualities of life determine the boundaries of tolerable suffering and a life worth prolonging? Who should decide?

What does ‘patient confidentiality’ mean? When would it be appropriate to breach this?

First things first, what is euthanasia? This is the term given to describe actions taken to deliberately end someone’s life, …