Nurses interact with people during some of their most vulnerable moments and in highly personal ways. It’s why they often find themselves confronted with challenging ethical dilemmas that require ...

For me, gastroenterology is a family endeavor. My father is a passionate pediatric gastroenterologist, so fulfilled by ...

CARE-ACE supports autonomy through bounded agentic reasoning, in which diagnostic, prognostic, planning, and risk-assessment ...

New York’s Medical Aid in Dying is often framed as compassion guided by medical expertise. But is the legislation prescribing ...

April 2, 2004 — Life-sustaining treatment decisions in patients who have lost their decision-making capacity must first and foremost respect the autonomy of the patient and/or the immediate family, ...

Patient autonomy is one of the four pillars of modern medical ethics. In some cases, however, its value is not absolute and autonomy may be overridden by sufficiently important matters of public ...

Patient rights are a fundamental aspect of modern health care, encapsulating key ethical principles and legal protections for individuals receiving medical care. These rights have evolved over the ...

In a rapidly advancing digital healthcare landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a pivotal role in reshaping patient data management and enhancing patient autonomy. In an insightful ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island lawmakers heard a controversial bill Tuesday that would afford terminally ill patients the right to choose to end their lives. The Lila Manfield Sapinsley ...

Last month, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a bill lawmakers passed called “Deb’s Law” that enables terminally ill patients to request a prescription from their doctor to end their ...