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Illinois' Medical Practice Act is an essential state law that governs the practice of medicine in our state. Without it, any person – regardless of qualification – could practice medicine in Illinois without restriction or penalty. Because medicine is an ever-changing field, the Act is set to expire on a regular basis, enabling the ...
Professionalism is at the core of medical practice and forms the basis of medicine's contract with society. Patients need to know their doctor will uphold the values of the profession. They want clinically competent physicians who are also compassionate, altruistic, and trustworthy. Medical professionalism is the translation of the values of ...
Medicine and the law. This handbook provides insight into basic legal concepts and underlying principles that govern physicians in their practices. It also offers physicians a greater understanding of the standards and requirements imposed on them by law. While some physicians may be quite familiar with these legal concepts, the handbook is ...
Jun 4, 2020 · An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in this review. The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained. Informed consent, truth-telling, and confidentiality spring from the principle of autonomy, and each of them is discussed.
- Basil Varkey
- 10.1159/000509119
- 2020
- Med Princ Pract. 2021 Feb; 30(1): 17-28.
Healthcare directives are not required to be in any particular format. They do typically have to be signed, witnessed, and dated. Each province and territory has rules around what requirements must be followed in making a healthcare directive. The patient must have mental capacity (competence) at the time the document is prepared and signed.
May 7, 2024 · Determining the ethical nature of an individual's actions within a specific society is primarily contingent on the prevailing standards of morality at the broadest level of that society. Consequently, the most appropriate action when making an ethical decision is to consider the overarching and enduring principles that influence society the most. Three significant physician associations in the ...
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allow for a discourse on whether they should affect current professional practice.” More important to the status of guidelines, however, are the social and economic incentives and disincentives that may affect medical practice. Such factors determine whether professionals accept practice guidelines or codes of conduct and to what de-
