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News items on 'Medical Ethics'
'Bloodgate' doctor is suspended
(BBC 16/09/2009)
A doctor at the centre of a fake injury scandal which occurred during a big rugby match has been suspended by the General Medical Council. Wendy Chapman is alleged to have cut Harlequins wing Tom Williams' lip to hide his use of a fake blood capsule. The incident occurred in the Heineken Cup quarter-final against Leinster, who won the game 6-5 in April 2009. Quins have been fined £259,000, their director of rugby received a three year ban and Williams a four month ban.
Consent row as human cells used for hybrid embryo clones
(The Scotsman 15/09/2009)
TENS of thousands of Scots might be donating cells for research to create cloned animal-human embryos without their consent. Dr Calum MacKellar has raised concerns that people donating cells for research do not realise it is legal for them to be used to create hybrid embryos. The director of research at the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics said scientists collecting cells for research into genetic diseases might be tempted to let them be used to create hybrid embryos for stem cell research.
Women judge, but do they convict?
(BBC 07/09/2009)
Women are more likely to view someone as dishonest, but are less likely to convict, suggests an online study on attitudes to theft called Honesty lab. And only 42.9% of people think that it is dishonest for a carer to pressure an elderly lady to change her will. "There is no consensus on what is dishonest," said Emily Finch, one of the researchers. "However, the law is based upon an assumption that the majority of people in society hold the same views."
Assisted suicide 'danger' claim
(BBC 20/04/2009)
Proposals to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland have been branded "dangerous and unnecessary" by a medical ethics body. The Scottish Council on Human Bioethics said the planned bill risked turning disabled and terminally ill people into second class citizens. Independent MSP Margo MacDonald hopes to introduce an assisted dying bill later this year. She first needs to win the support of 18 MSPs to bring it before parliament.
Moral maze
(BBC 19/01/2009)
Rounds are intimate encounters between the patient and the clinical team. A medical team led by a senior doctor wanders from bed to bed, while a nurse or junior doctor presents each patient to the senior who then decides on their ongoing care. The private club, previously limited to the senior doctor and his entourage, has opened its doors to a new member: the clinical ethicist.
'Undercover' NHS as tribunal throws out allegations against nurse who filmed ward
(Telegraph 27/11/2008)
Doctors and nurses have effectively been told they can film undercover in the NHS, after an industrial tribunal threw out allegations against a nurse who exposed neglect on a ward. Margaret Haywood, 58, secretly filmed evidence of patients being left to die along and not being fed properly at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton, for the BBC programme Panorama.
Legal bid over research regulator
(BBC 26/11/2008)
Campaigners are seeking permission to launch a High Court test case over the way controversial human-animal embryo research research is regulated.
Ethics expert calls for drugs to 'enhance' death
(The Independent 13/10/2008)
It might be termed the hallucinogenic way of death. Psychoactive drugs such as "magic mushrooms" could be used to enhance the experience of dying, according to an expert in medical ethics. Robin Mackenzie, director of medical law and ethics at the University of Kent, is to call today for people to be given more choice over how they die at a workshop in London.
The minefield of medical morals
(BBC 03/08/2008)
Hardly a week goes by without a medical ethics dilemma appearing in the news. Occasionally, a "medical ethicist" makes an appearance. But what do they actually do?
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