Novel ethics fellowship equips nurses with the skills needed to navigate moral dilemmas in daily clinical practice.
Read MoreA North American First: Live Birth from Deceased-Donor Uterine Transplant at Cleveland Clinic
In a first for North America, a Cleveland Clinic patient has given birth after receiving a transplanted uterus from a deceased donor, a significant advancement in infertility treatment.
We All Bleed Red: The Importance of Self-Compassion
In this Q&A, Rev. Greene discusses spiritual care at Cleveland Clinic, the importance of empathy and self-compassion.
Advances in Fetal Genetic Testing Outpace Ways to Support Patient Education and Decision-Making
Advances in prenatal genetics are occurring at breakneck speed. Pregnant women want to understand benefits and risks, and physicians want to support their patients’ decision-making. How do health professionals ensure women are empowered in both the consent process and decision-making?
New Survey Provides First-Ever Systematic Evaluation of Conflict of Interest Policies
Conflict of interest policies help keep bias out of clinical care, research and educational activities. A new survey allows you to assess these policies for free, revealing what works and what doesn’t.
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Cancer-Risk Psychology: Helping Patients Live with Genetic Test Results
A psychologist specializing in hereditary cancer risk shares insights for how to help ensure patients’ cancer risk knowledge proves to be empowering, not burdensome.
BRAIN Neuroethics Grant Enables Deep Dive into Personality in Parkinson’s
How does Parkinson’s disease affect a person’s personality, and is it further changed by deep brain stimulation? The NIH hopes to find out with a neuroethics grant to Cleveland Clinic researchers.
Wherefore Art Thou, Empathy?
A leading rheumatologist defines empathy and describes the process of losing it during medical training.
Etiquette-Based Medicine: Complement or Affront to Evidence-Based Medicine?
A leading rheumatologist discusses communication-based empathy techniques and why physicians should ‘fake it until you make it.’
Can We Really Teach and Learn Empathy?
The Director of the R.J. Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology offers his thoughts on the teaching and learning of empathy.
Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
Ethics consultants are involved in about 10 percent of pediatric epilepsy surgery cases at Cleveland Clinic. This post explores why and how they’re essential to optimal experience and outcomes.