Ethics in Neurosurgery

Abstract

There are a number of ethical issues which confront medical practitioners in their profession many of these are common to all physicians and are well known. They include areas like confidentiality, informed consent, relationship with colleagues, advertisements, media publicity, professional charges, commissions, issuing of medical certificates and many others. A few situations which are especially relevant to neurosurgical practice and which often confront the clinician in day to day management of cases will be presented in this paper. For example management of a child with meningomyelocele and paraplegia, continuing aggressive treatment of a patient in brain death or vegetative state condition and etc.

 Keywords: Neurosurgery , Ethics , brain death