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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. The AAMC requires medical school graduates to “demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent.”

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The Council of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Convention: Implications for Health and Patients

Bill of Health

The enormous ‘data hunger’ of medical AI may also affect medical privacy, and the opaque nature of many AI applications may put existing health practices and other patients’ rights under pressure, such as the provision of information, informed consent, and legal redress.

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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill of Health

This is presented as a dilemma for clinicians who must weigh both possibilities equally; however, neither assertion has been adequately investigated in the P-AT literature, and the notion of “enhanced capacity” in altered states is neither supported by evidence nor by legal definitions of consent. Risk Mitigation. McLane et al.

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Concerted Effort to Define Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare is Sorely Needed

Healthcare IT Today

While it sounds reasonable, the definition of “responsible use” is not provided. A key component placing providers at risk is the lack of informed consent by patients to use these models to drive their care. A human touch is necessary to facilitate the appropriate and informed use of AI in the context of each individual patient.

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 23 in its current form. at *3) Rule 23(c)(4) partial class.

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S.D. Texas Trims Back Mesh Plaintiff Regulatory Expert Opinions

Drug & Device Law

The plaintiff expert intended to opine that the defendant’s premarket testing was inadequate, that the mesh device labeling inadequately informed doctors, that the labeling precluded patient informed consent, and that the inadequate labeling meant that the mesh device was “misbranded” and “adulterated.”

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Doctors Without Burdens:  Another Mesh Court Goes Backwards

Drug & Device Law

Two cases are cited in connection with the court’s definition of a novel test for proximate cause for a prescription medical device warnings claim. Larkin did not discuss the standard for proximate causation or suggest, as Thacker implies, that informed consent is part of the inquiry. It focused squarely on the doctor.

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