Sentences with phrase «against medical ethics»

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If circumcision were a new procedure being proposed today for any of the above conditions, it would not be acceptable based on insufficient medical evidence and / or medical ethics (it is against medical ethics to perform unnecessary surgery).

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While sitting on hospital medical - ethics committees, I have sometimes worried that physicians are tempted, against the wishes of parents, to refuse or slow down life - sustaining treatment to an infant they think is better off dead.

These groups, often called Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) or medical ethics review committees, evaluate a number of factors, including the potential risks weighted against the potential benefits.

Since then, the research has pitted groups that question the ethics of harvesting stem cells from human embryos against those that hope the line of research could result in important medical breakthroughs.

The fact that the AVMA does not speak out loudly against factory farming or over-breeding of cats, dogs and horses puts me at odds with some of the ethics of our profession at a national level yet I feel very aligned in purpose with the vets I meet at the American Holistic Vet Med Association meetings, International Veterinary Acupuncture Society and Veterinary Botanical Medical Association functions and through their list serves.