The role of social justice in triage guidelines: considering the context
09.08.2024
Op-eds
The SMW op-eds are short news articles, interviews or op-ed pieces on current issues at the interface between medical science and ethics, politics, education or other topics.
Report of the Forum for Global Health Ethics webinar on the role of social justice in triage: balancing efficiency, equity and inclusion
09.08.2024
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses – Recognised in the 1940s, but then forgotten?
06.06.2024
Data ethics in action: transforming Swiss healthcare with policyholder insights
16.05.2024
Junior doctor’s strikes in the United Kingdom – what can the Swiss healthcare system learn from the NHS’ shortfalls?
06.07.2023
Clinical ethics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland
24.04.2023
Why are we still using counterfoil prescription pads?
11.03.2023
The VIP syndrome
20.01.2023
First hundred adult Ukrainian refugees treated in the Emergency Department of Bern University Hospital – lessons learned
21.12.2022
The quality of public communication during COVID-19: symptoms of a wider malaise
31.10.2022
Planning high COVID-19 vaccination uptake among the aged population in Switzerland: how can social sciences make a difference?
18.10.2022
Clinical Research Core Competencies Framework
25.09.2022
What would have happened if we would not have had the COVID vaccination?
14.08.2022
Initiative against animal and human experimentation: contextualisation and prospective
21.06.2022
Popular approval of COVID-19 restrictions is strongly correlated with vaccination rate
12.04.2022
In memoriam: Paul Kleihues
25.03.2022
On COVID law backing at referendum and COVID incidence in Swiss cantons
03.03.2022
Paths to address the ethical challenges of human embryoid research
03.03.2022
Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chonic fatigue syndrome: what is the fuss about?
01.03.2022
Fair access to assistive technology? Gaps in transition from invalidity to old-age insurance in Switzerland
01.02.2022
Beyond the 28 November 2021 vote: a paradigm shift with public health to counteract the pandemic and fifth wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland?
28.12.2021
Insights from the mass vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2 in Geneva, Switzerland
24.08.2021
One year later: lessons learned during and after the activity of the coronavirus hotline in the canton of Fribourg
06.07.2021
Nature and duration of symptoms among callers to the coronavirus hotline in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
06.07.2021
The “Sarner Code” for COVID-19 patients and triage during resource scarcity in Switzerland
20.06.2021
Violence and abuse in competitive sports
14.04.2021
Adherence to public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: the pivotal role of behavioural science
13.04.2021
A new cardiovascular tissue bank in Switzerland
05.03.2021
Co-medications administered with hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 inpatients: prevalence and ethical implications
05.02.2021
A precise measure of the impact of the first wave of COVID-19 on life expectancy: regional differences in Switzerland
29.01.2021
Implementing systematic outcome assessments in a Swiss healthcare practice: points to consider
25.11.2020
What pregnant women are taking: learning from a survey in the Canton of Zurich
25.11.2020
The “Pandemic Gap” in Switzerland across the 20th century and the necessity of increased science communication of past pandemic experiences
12.11.2020
Management of non-COVID-19 patients should not be the dark side of the pandemic
27.09.2020
The future of clinical ethics in Switzerland – a plea for further professionalisation
03.08.2020
Trusting medical science: humanists’ teachings medically annotated
19.06.2020
Coronaviruses: old and new
27.04.2020
Vitamin D and SARS-CoV-2
08.04.2020
In memoriam: Lelio Orci
22.03.2020
How do doctors care for their own health?
16.01.2020
Clinicians or teachers – why not both? Expanding the comfort zone of Swiss clinical teachers in private practice
16.01.2020
Combined anti-smoking warnings: is a canton level approach for languages required?
20.12.2019
The Romand Network of Oncology: bridging the gap of personalised oncology
18.10.2019
Aging and driving in Switzerland
07.10.2019
Has medicine become a science?
15.08.2019
The difficult task of decision-making in chronically ill patients: Why do intensivists dare while others do not?
01.07.2019
E-learning for a medical undergraduate curriculum: a successful Swiss programme
01.07.2019
Reconsidering delegated psychotherapy
18.03.2019
Introducing a weak presumed consent for organ donation – is it ethically justified?
12.02.2019
The rationale for a Swiss Citizen Study and Biobank
07.12.2018
Arno Gruen’s understanding of autonomy in children
26.10.2018
Questionable pediatric studies with Swiss participation
19.03.2018
Women in science: a call to action to fix the leaky pipeline
08.03.2018
Sonic attack claims stir controversy in the United States
23.02.2018
The Swiss approach to precision medicine
02.01.2018
Black clouds in the Emergency Room: myth or fact?
27.12.2017
Quantity or quality of life
19.10.2017
Dr. Hans Salvisberg, physician and philanthropist
17.10.2017
IN MEMORIAM
Confused by clinical research methods? Get a clue!
03.08.2017
Why not start teaching (some) medicine in elementary school?
18.06.2017
Challenging the “leaky pipeline” in faculties of medicine
12.05.2017
Psychosomatics in times of evidence-based medicine
13.03.2017
Sport as part of the medical humanities – why not?
30.01.2017
Personalised health – current opinion
05.01.2017
How residents can efficiently manage their training years with myAIM
18.12.2016