One manifestation of the status quo bias is the default effect: that decisionmakers will tend to
stick with the default choice even when it conflicts with their stated preferences. For example …

THE PRACTICAL ETHICAL QUESTION IN THE CASE OF REV-erend G is this: when, if ever,
and under which con-ditions, can his cardiac pacemaker be removed? This is a specific …

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors and hypothesize or predict potential
consequences of actions. According to Piaget, apart from inexperience, most individuals 14 …

Persad, Wertheimer, and Emanuel (2009) review a number of possible principles for
allocating scarce life-saving interventions like organ transplants and vaccines. While their …

Conscientious objection is the refusal to perform a legal role or responsibility because of
personal beliefs. In health care, conscientious objection can involve practitioners not …

Background. Living wills are intended to preserve patient autonomy, but recent studies
suggest that they do not always have their desired effect. One possible explanation is that …

Omission bias is the tendency to consider harm from inaction preferable to equivalent harm
from action. In this work, we explored how individual differences in omission bias shape …

To investigate the effects of mood on people's end-of-life treatment decisions and their false
memories of those decisions, participants took part in two sessions. At Time 1, participants …

When a child is enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (Schip), the
positive results can be dramatic. For example, after asthmatic children are enrolled in Schip …

In “The Family Covenant and Genetic Testing,” Doukas and Berg (2001) propose an
“ethically based mechanism” that may help resolve problems of competing interests that …