Month: May 2013

• Patient Ethics.

  Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about ethics; I’m not sure why, although I suppose it’s a common attribute of age: a way, perhaps, of appraising one’s own affect on the world. I’ve written before about the usual constituents of an ethical assessment: Respect of Autonomy -respect, in other words, for a different opinion; Justice -or […]

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  May 24, 2013

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  doctor-patient relationship, medical relationship expectations, patient responsibilities, Transpositional medical ethics

• Is there ever a correct answer?

  “Doctor, can I still get pregnant?” -a seemingly straightforward question, I suppose: quote her some statistics derived from her age, past history and current medical status. But in reality, it’s probably not a single question she’s asking. In many respects, it’s a philosophical question with many facets to consider; it requires a thoughtful reply. Philosophy, as Michael […]

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  May 17, 2013

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  Analysing questions, Can I still get pregnant? Women’s issues, Doctors’ answers, listening, listening as therapy, medicine, philosophy, Women’s Health issues

• Sex Selection… or Any Selection

  Another day, another march. This time it was the March for Life in Ottawa where the usual Pro-Life rhetoric was rebranded as being against sex-selection abortions. A worthy cause, for sure, and probably more universally palatable than condemning all abortions -whether done for medical, genetic, or even social reasons- as they have in the past. And by aligning themselves with the […]

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  May 11, 2013

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  abortion, choice, gendercide, medical ethics, opinion compromise, Sex selection, vexing questions, women’s issues

• The Objective Doctor

  Is there objectivity in Medicine? Is it even possible? Can there ever be a decision or an opinion that is not contingent and shaped by something not currently obvious? If we engage with someone, are we not also conversing with their past? And are they not interacting with our own shadows? I ask this because I have always wondered […]

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  May 3, 2013

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  Alternate therapies, bias in Medicine, medical opinions, Objectivity, women’s health