by George Lundberg, MD
The American Medical Association was founded in 1846 for a number of reasons, including to create a Code of Medical Ethics.
It did, and the Code is alive in 2010.
I believe that all medical students should memorize these bedrock principles — a little like many did the Boy Scout Oath and Law.
And, I believe that all physicians should follow them scrupulously, lifelong.
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The critical factors limiting nurse practitioners’ capacity to practice to the full extent of their education, training, and competence are state-based regulatory barriers. States vary in terms of what they allow nurse practitioners to do, and this variance appears not to be correlated with performance on any measure of quality or safety. There are no data to suggest that nurse practitioners in states that impose greater restrictions on their practice provide safer and better care than those in less restrictive states or that the role of physicians in less restrictive states has changed or deteriorated.
Full article from The New England Journal of Medicine available here.
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Making a New Year’s resolution to lose weight has become a cliché—not that there’s anything wrong with wanting to be a healthy weight. But when the government resolves to make us—or more specifically our children—lose weight, that is a problem.First lady Michelle Obama has made childhood obesity her cause. Who could object to that? People [...]
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