ADuring his rolling as chairman of the IMA and the WMA Dr. Ishay released many articles, mostly on medical ethics. Most of them were published in

“Michtav laHaver” and in “haRefua” magazines. Here are some of his main articles:

 Between Doctor and Patient

 – The Doctor’s dilemma : telling the patient the truth

– The Doctor as protector of human right facing society’s demands

– Patient asking to leave and patient disappearing from hospital’s department

– Should the Doctor conduct routine tests on every patient?

– Handing information from patient’s file ; the judicial and ethical aspects

– Patient’s best : is it advisable or aloud to tie up a patient to his bed

– Giving or avoiding treatment to the Patient

– The placebo dilemma

– The commitment of the Doctor to his Patient

Genetics and ethics

– Experiments in animal cloning

– Genome, genetic counseling and cloning

Aids and ethics

 – Attitude towards an HIV carrier in routine medicine – the ethical aspect

– Aids – ethics, discrimination and social policy

Life prolonging and death

 – From the right to die to dying assistance

– Treating the dying or the hopeless patient

– Judicial and ethicals aspects in avoiding life prolonging treatment

– Can a standing point of the doctors in Israel concerning the right to die be

  determined?

Miscellaneous

– Medicinal treatment in an contagious disease

– Teenagers treatment – the ethical aspects

– Thoughts after Nahmani’s verdict

– Is Nürnebrg Code invalid?

– Dialysis to an eight years old

– Attitude to violence of a patient or of his family

– Medicine and the media – the Patient good

– The connection between the Doctors strike and medical ethics

– Ethical issues in conducting mass scanning as prevention cancer tests

– Propagation – right or obligation

Articles in English

– High technology in medicine  ethical aspects

– The use of embryonic stem cells for therapeutic research