Issues in biomedical ethics.

Bioethics is the discipline of ethics dealing with moral problems arising in the practice of medicine and the pursuit of biomedical research. Physicians may confront ethical dilemmas regularly in their individual relationships with patients and in institutional and societal decisions on health care policy. Ethical problem solving requires the application of certain ethical rules and principles to specific situations.

Legal and ethical problems in intensive care units.

The intent of this article is to increase the awareness of physicians working in intensive care units as to their legal and ethical responsibilities, and the potential for serious harm they can do to patients with the inevitable malpractice law suit if patient damage does occur. This article also suggests some defences in the event that physicians get involved in the legal cobweb.

Thoracic hemangiomatosis masquerading as interstitial lung disease.

Pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis is an extremely rare condition, first described by Wagenvoort. In this condition, sheets of thin-walled blood vessels infiltrate the lung parenchyma, bronchioles, and pleura. Three previous cases have been described in the literature.