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Conscientious objection: Can a hospital refuse to provide treatment?

September 29, 2017 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Claire Horner,  clinical ethics,  Conscientious Objection,  Death,  Medical Aid in Dying,  medical ethics,  palliative medicine

Canada recently legalized medical assistance in dying (MAiD), which allows patients to receive a lethal drug that they can self-administer, or be administered a lethal

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What is palliative medicine?

December 14, 2016 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Dr. Eduardo Bruera,  ethics,  palliative medicine

In the last 50 years, medicine has focused successfully on the cure and long-term management of many diseases. That in itself is wonderful since we

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From the Labs: Image of the Month

Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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