PURPOSE: To determine the accuracy and complications of vacuum-assisted core breast
biopsy performed with ultrasonographic (US) guidance. MATERIALS AND METHODS: US-…

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Properly assigning authorship of academic papers is often an ethical challenge. Through a
hypothetical case study, the authors examine some of the potential ethical issues involved in …

Background and objective: Culturally competent medical care for the dying patient by
families and health care professionals is a challenging task especially when religious values, …

Problems of refusal of care, among the most common ethical dilemmas in the emergency
department, are also often the most difficult to resolve, pitting 2 conflicting duties, that of helping …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses various aspects of medical ontology including
meaning of disease and its relation to distinction between disease and health. A realist about …

Although LVADs originally support-ed patients only for a brief time before they received heart
transplants, implantation of the devices has recently evolved into a definitive destination …

On 7 May 2020, Columbia University Global Centers hosted an online international symposium
on ethical dilemmas during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This interdisciplinary engagement …

The term difficult patient refers to a group of patients with whom a physician may have trouble
forming a normal therapeutic relationship. The care of these patients can present many …

The ontology of medicine—the question of whether disease entities are real or not—is an
underdeveloped area of philosophical inquiry. This essay explains the primary question at …