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The Case of a 20-Month-Old Boy
A 20-month-old Puerto Rican boy was admitted to the inpatient unit for failure to thrive associated with a decrease in ...
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Case Study – Tatiana Tarasoff: A Duty to Warn
When a therapist predicts that his patient is a danger to another person, does he have a duty to warn ...
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Case Study: One Small Cut that Killed
The family wants answers, and so far, all they know is that he came in with one small cut and ...
![The Case of Omer: Who Should Talk to the Family and What Should They Say?](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Omer-Who-Should-Talk-to-the-Family-and-What-Should-They-Say-300x200.jpeg)
The Case of Omer: Who Should Talk to the Family and What Should They Say?
How should an adverse event from a surgery be handled? ...
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Case Study – I Know What You’re Thinking
An African American male patient, age forty-two, was admitted to a skilled nursing unit after surgery for head and neck ...
![Confidentiality in the Age of AIDS: A Case Study in Clinical Ethics](https://practicalbio.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Confidentiality-in-the-Age-of-AIDS-A-Case-Study-in-Clinical-Ethics-300x205.jpeg)
Confidentiality in the Age of AIDS: A Case Study in Clinical Ethics
This article presents the case of an HIV-positive patient who presented the treating physician, a psychiatrist, with an ethical dilemma ...
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Case Study – Walking The Tightrope
Is this 85-year-old patient "a complainer" or is she in pain? ...
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Your Medical Mind
In their book, Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You, Dr. Jerome Groopman and his wife, ...
![Training Future Doctors: The Standardized Patient](https://www.practicalbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/doctor-g246c6af0a_1280-300x240.png)
Training Future Doctors: The Standardized Patient
More and more medical institutions are using standardized patients to train future doctors on patient interactions ...