Tag: Medical Ethics

Long-established pillars of medical ethics, such as to do good and not to intentionally do harm, remain a “daily compass” for clinicians, but “it has never been more onerous to practice ethically than it is today,” said emergency physician Dr Stephen Parnis in the Australian Catholic University’s 2025 Plunkett Lecture.

“Truth and Integrity in Medicine” is the theme of this year’s Catholic Medical Association of Australia conference, to be held in Melbourne in October.  Innocuous as those words might seem, in today’s climate they can be dangerous, says the CMAA chair, Dr Eamonn Mathieson.

Will the latest serious errors lead to significant change in the IVF industry? Probably not.

Recently, debate commenced on the Abortion Law Amendment (Health Care Access) bill which would, amongst other things, further chip away at the freedom of health practitioners to conscientiously object to participating in abortion.

Indi Gregory died last week, aged just eight-and-a-half months. She had mitochondrial disease, a deadly and fatal genetic condition.

PM pushed 3-parent IVF

Urgent need highlighted for greater palliative care in NSW Sydney doctors and members of the Australian Catholic Medical Association specialising in the field of palliative...

Archbishop Fisher has support from Catholics who say an ethical option will boost vaccination uptake.

Proposed law would extend access to persons without a definite prognosis.

Withdrawing artificial delivery of food and water to patients can be ethically complex It can be unethical to withdraw artificial hydration and nutrition and doing...

Ethicists are concerned that so-called ‘three-person IVF’ could become legal in Australia.