Karen McKim, Madison, Wis.: This column represents conservatism as it should be practiced — attention to long-standing moral and ethical values, establishment of high standards, and explicit expectation that people, particularly those who desire to lead the nation, will be held accountable to those standards.
Democracy requires a lot of things, and among them is a free, open and ethical media establishment that fact-checks before it publishes and relentlessly checks propaganda.
Important stakeholders, such as medical educationalists, ethicists, HEC, REC, MEC, PMDC, and PNC, must enforce the establishment of ethical committees in all hospitals to monitor clinical ethics.
Second, commitment to medical service and values results in the professionals following a code of ethics, which eventually contributes to establishment of an ethical professional culture.
This research led to the establishment of ethical guidelines appropriate to twin research in developing countries.
They also advised on requirements relating to ethical approval for the establishment of the databank and for subsequent research, and on issues of public interest and appropriate data usage.
Although pre-marketing clinical trials and post-marketing safety studies can address questions regarding safety in most segments of the population, pregnant women constitute one special group for whom ethical concerns prohibit the establishment of human drug safety information as part of the drug development and approval process.
The transplants in China, which doctors in both countries say are increasing, has presented the American medical establishment with an ethical quandary: Should American doctors treat patients who have received organs from executed prisoners and, if so, would they be tacitly condoning the practice and encouraging more such transplants.
What I want to see is the establishment of an ethical committee which would not just meet annually and report but be in a position to spot trends.
