Alice Herb is currently involved in working towards amending Family Health Care Decisions Act (FHCDA) to expand its scope and clarify some of its provisions and to amend the Health Care Proxy law to make it consistent with the FHCDA; awaiting final editing instructions for publication of article in Academic Medicine entitled “Ethical Dilemmas Encountered in Clerkship Rotations”.
Special interest in clinical ethics, particularly in the provider/patient relationship, role of palliative care in high tech environment, the continuing dilemmas in human subject research.
Points covered include:
- The slippery slope of ethical decisions
- How ethical judgments are compromised when involving those of limited financial means
- The patient advocate is primary for scrutinizing application of ethical decisions and protecting patients from compromises in ethical values
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