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The responses of various national legislations to experiments carried out on persons mentally incapable of consenting to experimentation reveal the extent of the ethical dilemmas as regards experimentation on the mentally handicapped. Future decisions will have to be governed by extremely careful guidelines.
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Codes of Ethics , Ethics, Medical , Human Experimentation , Intellectual Disability , Internationality , Mental Disorders , Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation , Patient Selection , Research Subjects , Advisory Committees , Ethical Theory , Humans , Informed Consent/legislation & jurisprudence , Mentally Ill Persons , Risk Assessment , Social Control, Formal , Social Justice , Therapeutic Human Experimentation , United StatesABSTRACT
To assess what constitutes a useful radiological report for referring physicians, we sent a questionnaire to 200 doctors (general practitioners, internists, and surgeons). Questions testing style, length of the report, and several points of content, including mention of clinical correlation, negative findings, and sequence of further investigations, were included. The principal qualities useful to the clinician were clarity, brevity, and clinical correlation. Advice on planning of future investigations was especially valued by general practitioners.
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Communication , Radiology , Referral and Consultation , General Surgery , Internal Medicine , Interprofessional Relations , Medical RecordsABSTRACT
The present state of the law in relation to dying persons is in a state of uncertainty primarily because there has not yet been a clear jurisprudential indication of the meaning to be given to a certain number of sections of the Canadian Criminal Code dealing with the subject. I propose to briefly discuss the law as it now exists and to refer to a working paper (No. 28) of the Law Reform Commission of canada called "Euthanasia, Aiding Suicide and Cessation of Treatment".
