Selling Human Organs for Transplantation: Ethics Under Siege
I have previously posted on the ethics of paying for organ donation. I find this notion to be ethically troubling, but I believe the issue deserves fair debate. In general, my belief is that a personal anecdote should not drive policy in medical ethics. There are many individual vignettes that are poignant and heartbreaking that [...]
Call for papers: Data Mining Concept and Applications in Business Intelligence
A special issue of International Journal of Business and Systems Research Data mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information – information that can be used to increase revenue, cut costs, or both. It allows users to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, categorize it [...]
Standard of review
A comment by an eight-year-old girl, exiting last night’s tap dance performance by Savion Glover: “That was better than American Idol!”
SETTLEMENT IS CONFIDENTIAL – what does that mean?
A vast majority of medical malpractice / nursing home abuse and neglect cases in this country settle before trial. This means the parties, on their own (and sometimes with an Arbitrator who orders payment on a case) agree to a certain amount of money to give / accept to end the lawsuit. There are many [...]
