Zakari Tata, MD
Zakari Tata is a family physician.
Physician
Many articles have been written on physician suicides. Yet nothing practical has been implemented. The problem is probably much larger than reported, as families will try to avoid publicity where possible. In medicine, just as in the rest of society,…
Many articles have been written on physician suicides. Yet nothing practical has been implemented. The problem is probably much larger than reported, as families will try to avoid publicity where possible.
In medicine, just as in the rest of society, people diagnosed with depression are wrongly labeled as weak, and discrimination, especially the subtle passive type, exists. Physicians …
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How to prevent suicide in physicians
Patient
Informed consent has continued to generate a lot of interest in medicine worldwide. The reason is because patients in medicine and subjects in clinical trials need protection from the multitude of injuries and harms that have been caused by intentional…
Informed consent has continued to generate a lot of interest in medicine worldwide.
The reason is because patients in medicine and subjects in clinical trials need protection from the multitude of injuries and harms that have been caused by intentional or accidental actions. The controversies generated by various lapses of informed consent, in my opinion, have not been addressed and more safeguards need to be put in place to guard against …
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A balanced approach to informed consent
Patient
Biomedical ethics and bedside communication is currently taught to medical students in a classroom mainly in the first two years. In residency it is not usually given a lot of attention. This is leading to a situation where a very…
Biomedical ethics and bedside communication is currently taught to medical students in a classroom mainly in the first two years. In residency it is not usually given a lot of attention. This is leading to a situation where a very basic part of daily patient interaction is not addressed. This leads to many complex problems in the hospital that lead to moral dilemmas and conflicts.
The idea needs to be reintroduced …
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Bioethics and bedside communication in daily patient interaction
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