Holland Kaplan, MD, is an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Section of General Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In this Q&A with ...

he ethical guidelines laid out in the Hippocratic Oath nearly 2,500 years ago are about to collide with 21 st century artificial intelligence (AI). AI promises to be a boon to medical practice, ...

The Hippocratic oath serves as a mission statement for physicians, articulating principles that guide their work. Its tenets include beneficence, nonmaleficence and confidentiality, but they are often ...

Last week I attended American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. One of the themes running through the event was ethics education. There was, for example, much ...

The scenario plays out countless times across hospital corridors: A medical student observes an attending physician dismissing a patient’s concerns, a resident falsifying documentation, or a colleague ...

As the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, spreads across the globe, governments have been taking increasingly severe measures to limit the virus’s infection rate. China, where it originated, has instituted ...

A study by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with colleagues from Rabin Medical Center in Israel and other collaborators, suggests that even the most ...

The American Medical Association now offers ethical guidance to physicians who are considering selling their private ...

Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday urged young doctors to give back to society through dedicated service and uphold ...

Explore the rise of 'docfluencers'—medical professionals leveraging social media for brand endorsements. As ethical ...

Sports coaches have always made decisions based on experience, observation and intuition. But they are increasingly relying on hard evidence. Behind the scenes, a quiet revolution is transforming ...