Palliative Care is the ethical commitment of a society that is sensitive to the suffering of its citizens. When medicine has failed to prevent or cure a disease, the physician must commit to caring for and supporting the person suffering [...]
Palliative care, which should be used when it is not possible to cure the patient, but it is possible to relieve their suffering and accompany them in the process of their illness in a multidisciplinary way, should not only be [...]
Palliative care consists of providing holistic care to those suffering from an advanced illness, using a methodology that promotes conceiving each reality as a whole, distinct from the sum of its component parts. Therefore, this care focuses on comprehensive care [...]
Indi Gregory has passed away in the hospice where she was taken off life support on Saturday, November 12. The eight-month-old British baby died after the legal battle that her parents had undertaken months before to keep her on life [...]
A recent article, published in the prestigious scientific journal BMC Medical Ethics, analyzes the important issue of assessing the level of consciousness in patients suffering from disorders at this level, which represents an urgent challenge for their attention, monitoring and [...]
An article published in The Economist newspaper on August 26, 2021, states that “the technological advance in the ICU (intensive care unit) that allows keeping patients alive, almost indefinitely, is a problem for hospitals.” Dr. Robert Truog, a pediatric intensive [...]
The end of life care is a bioethical issue of great relevance, even more, in the current crisis of Covid 19 (read HERE and HERE). A study published last December in BMC Medical Ethics entitled Barriers in implementing the dying [...]
A major bioethical issue for health care services, patients, and their families is cancer treatment delay, a problem experienced by every health care system worldwide, unfortunately, exacerbated at present with the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. The first question to address [...]
We have published some articles about the singularities COVID 19 spread (read HERE), The high incidence of Covid-19 infection among health professionals in Spain, which we discussed in a recent article (read HERE), contrasts with what seems to be happening [...]
Recently, an article entitled “National Recommendations on Pediatric Donation” was published in Spanish journal Anales de Pediatría – Annals of Pediatrics – ( read HERE) The article is a summary of a consensus document drawn up by the Spanish National [...]
Last March, the Bioethics Observatory at the Catholic University of Valencia drew up a document entitled, “Euthanasia comes to Spain. Medical, legal and social reflection”, in which we synthetically evaluated the possible legalization of euthanasia in Spain following a bill [...]
Palliative care is an important issue in medical ethics. Global health care institutions such as the World Health Organization do not recognize it as a basic right for terminally-ill patients (read HERE). Medical institutions and bioethicists, however, disagree. Our Observatory [...]
