Medical practitioners today are confronted with an unprecedented degree of complex challenges and expectations. At the same time, their conduct and services are placed under close scrutiny by an increasingly critical and demanding public. On one hand, they are expected to be empathic communicators armed with good bedside manners...

Knowledge and confidence, and positive or negative attitudes in relation to medical ethics, are affected by medical ethics education. Mainstreaming and formalising ethics education in the medical school curriculum increases knowledge and confidence, and creates positive attitudes towards ethics education. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click...

The concept of medical futility has been present since antiquity, and traditionally marked the shift in the primary goal of care to providing physical and emotional comfort. Only by following the declaration of futility could interventions be designed to relieve distress and pain for the patient, and bringing a...

Innovative surgery is perhaps best defined as “a novel procedure, a significant modification of a standard technique, a new application of or a new indication for an established technique, or an alternative combination of an established technique with another therapeutic modality that is developed and tested for the first...

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” -Albert Camus (1957 Nobel Prize for Literature) As the microscopic ‘wild beasts’ of infectious diseases are loosed upon this world with an ever increasing frequency in recent years, there is a corresponding need for us to come up with...