Health Care Ethics USA
2006 - Vol. 14 No.2
From the editor...
Welcome to this issue of Health
Care Ethics USA. Each issue of the journal is archived online with access
to the current and the previous issues. The new online address is: http://chce.slu.edu/Partnerships_HCE_Intro.html
This second issue for 2006
contains three essays. The first essay is by Mark Repenshek, PhD, who is the
Healthcare Ethicist at Columbia St. Mary's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His essay
discusses "The Mechanism of Action in Intrauterine Devices (IUD) as it Relates to
Physician Billing Services." The second essay is by Birgitta N. Sujdak
Mackiewicz who is an Ethics Fellow at OSF St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria,
Illinois. Her essay discusses, "Can Catholic Facilities Justify the Use of
Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Developed from the Destruction of Human Embryos?"
The final essay is by Ann Suziedelis, PhD, who is the Vice President of Mission
Services at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan. With a captivating
title her essay discusses a very serious ethical concern, "Nurses: The Rodney
Dangerfields of Health Care?" I hope that you enjoy the essays.
Professor Gerard Magill, PhD
Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University
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