Ethical perspectives in health care by members of the Health Care Ethics Internship Program.
HCEI Interns and Ethics Center bioethics staff share perspectives around a variety of health care and bioethics related ethical dilemmas.
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Pulse oximeters are essential tools for triage and treatment, yet they are significantly more likely to miss dangerously low oxygen levels in patients with darker skin. This discrepancy raises a fundamental ethical challenge: can a health care system justify a foreseeable and preventable distribution of harm in the name of population-level efficiency?
A Study in Health Care EthicsTianyu Tan, biology major, highlights facts about the Rabies virus and exploring ethical issues regarding diagnosis, access, and the high cost of obtaining necessary rabies treatments.
The role that spirituality and religion may play in the Hispanic mortality paradox requires rethinking how spirituality and health care coexist.
Even though clinical trials are essential to advancing scientific knowledge, they need to be conducted ethically. Unfortunately, this is not always the case as seen with ethical misconduct found in a clinical trial with Kaiser of Northern California.
The disparities in contraceptive use among Hispanic adolescents significantly impact unintended pregnancy rates.
