Showing posts with label Ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethics. Show all posts
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Alfie Evans: A Reasonable Economic Decision Disguised as a Horrific Moral Determination

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The tragic case of Alfie Evans has roiled Great Britain and the world. Alfie was a 2 year old child in the United Kingdom with an unknown...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Theranos, The Wall Street Journal, and what Everyone is Missing: the Harms of Overtesting

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Theranos is a Silicon Valley start-up dedicated to revolutionizing (some would say disrupting) the medical blood testing industry.  The cla...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Marijuana, Neurosurgery, and Physician Impairment

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A brief article several days ago posted the name and picture of a neurosurgery resident accused of smoking marijuana on the job.  Dr. Gunj...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

To my Fellow Medical Students: Beware before Judging your Residents, for you may Easily Become them

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A recent paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine has sparked a large news media response. In it, two incidents are described: in one, ...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Physician-Assisted-Suicide and Pay-for-Performance: an Unholy Union

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Recently, a young woman named Brittney Maynard  became a symbol for the Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) movement in the United States.  B...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

I support vaccines- but I am somewhat surprised that more parents don't

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As a medical student, I strongly support vaccination. It works, it's safe, and it doesn't cause autism. But I also understand why...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Informed Consent is a Chimera

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This post  by Paul Levy got me thinking about informed consent, and a case I saw recently got me to take a little time and write about an i...
Monday, July 28, 2014

The Coming Downfall of Medicine: Scientific Corruption

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Some recent news about a(nother) scandal in the pharmaceutical industry has led me to post on something that is critical to the future of ...