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The Legal and Ethical Imperative of Explicit Consent in Intimate Medical Procedures

AIHC

However, sensitive exams and other intimate tasks conducted without consent can leave patients feeling violated. Informed consent is a cornerstone of ethical medical practice. of them expressed a correct understanding of what constitutes informed consent. [3] Written by: Shelby Harriel-Hidlebaugh, M.Ed.

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New Portable MRI Revolutionizing Brain Research Demands Ethical and Legal Innovation

Bill of Health

But because MRI scanners are expensive and require extensive infrastructure, they have mostly been housed in hospitals and large research institutions. Traditional MRI brain scanning has transformed neuroscience research. pMRI can also help to enlarge and diversify the makeup of the MRI research community.

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How to Assess the Impact of Medical Ethics Education

Bill of Health

However, although a large percentage of hospitalized patients lack capacity , physicians often do not feel confident in their ability to assess capacity, fail to recognize that most patients who do not have capacity lack it, and often disagree on which patients have capacity.