The recent editorial by Dr. John Hoey, 1 which described the need to obtain written consent
from patients before publishing details about their cases, means that it may become difficult …

To the Editor: We were deeply moved by your Editorial on 'Talking about death....'[58 (11):
996, 2004]. We agree that breaking bad news to patients with cancer is a very difficult task …

In a rare moment of weakness, I agreed to serve on UCSF's Institutional Review Board. This
is a big deal. In addition to meetings every 2 weeks, members need to learn a complex …

As authors of case reports know, CMAJ requires written consent from pa-tients whose
medical history is described in our pages. In a recent issue we goofed and published not …

Madam: It was a Monday afternoon in early April when I decided to take a break from
dictating notes to referring HMOs and opened my copy of the March-April Hastings Center …

Method All consultation requests made during the six months from October 1981 to March
1982 were examined where there was a request for competence when informed consent …

JS, a twenty-four-year-old male schizophrenic, has been taking antipsychotic medication
regularly since the age of fourteen. Four years ago he was admitted to a private mental …

An exchange in recent issues of the journal raises important questions about the ethics of
covert video surveillance by doctors when they suspect life-threatening Munchausen's …

But what if the patient is not competent? For example, we can conjecture that chronic mental
illness may have had an impact on Sophie's cognitive abilities: her attention, memory and …

Informed consent recently made the headlines with Congress and the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) expounding on circumstances where they will accept the alteration …