The Importance of Protecting Patients during Clinical Research
Chances are that if you have spent any time performing clinical research you have encountered the Institutional Review Board, or IRB. The IRB is…
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What is Physician Empathy?
The word empathy, as we understand it today, is a relatively recent creation of only the past 60 years or so. It came into…
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The Importance of Medical Ethics: A Short Anecdote
During one of our medical ethics lectures, Dr. David Beyda posed a question: Should convicted prisoners be eligible to receive organ transplants, even if…
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