The work is designed to improve clinician-family communication about brain injury, inform educational standards for professionals, and articulate a justification for research in patients who are unable to provide consent.
Hoffman, who teaches Law and Bioethics at Columbia, testified on the professional ethical implications and justifications for physician involvement in the relief of otherwise untreatable suffering at the end of life.
11 In many low-income countries including Nepal, pregnancy and childbirth are often perceived as normal life events without justification to seek professional help.
Other studies in this field suggest variability in professional decision-making processes and justifications, and there remains no clear definition as to what constitutes 'immediate need'.
Using persuasion techniques for the purpose of changing patient preferences involves the exercise of verbal power, and such use of professional power requires a special ethical justification.
Responses were orientated towards a preference for scientific justification, including approval by professionals and scientific testing.
Finally, our analysis highlighted the importance of discussion between families and professionals addressing the invasiveness of, and justification for, some physiotherapy treatments.
In this era of constrained resources, spine care professionals are challenged to provide value and justification of resource allocation.
In this world, traditional notions of the law as a professional activity, carried on by licensed attorneys, lose their justification.
But it galls and distresses her that she is increasingly unsure whether Nick's loyalty to PM and his WMD-justifications for war are a matter of professional duty or brainwashed self-deception.
