Showing posts with label Medical ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical ethics. Show all posts
Monday, June 16, 2025

New VA Rules Allow Denials of Treatment Based on Political Party Affiliation, Marital Status

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It sounds like a headline from The Onion , but it appears to be real. As reported by the Latin Times and others (cited below), "The VA...
Monday, November 18, 2024

West Virginia's Constitutional Amendment Prohibiting Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Prof. Austin Sarat ( Amherst College ) has posted an excellent op-ed on the website of The Hill that describes and decries the autonomy-c...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Health Affairs: "The Impact Of The Election On Health Policy And The Courts"

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The nonpartisan and highly respected journal, Health Affairs , today posted an analysis of some of the more conspicuous (and worrying) chan...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

ECMO: A Clinical and Ethical Challenge for Our Time

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The New Yorker has posted an excellent essay ( "How ECMO is Redefining Death" ) on the history, current status, and ethical chall...
Thursday, December 07, 2023

What Is a Hospital to Do When a Patient Refuses a Discharge?

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Here's the scenario: A patient is admitted to the hospital for treatment. Treatment goes well, and the patient can safely be discharged ...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Nonconsensual Pelvic Exams

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Over the years (decades, actually), I've heard reports from med students who were disturbed by what they witnessed during their ob-gyn c...
Saturday, July 08, 2023

"Futility" Policy at Mass General Hospital

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Thad Pope has alerted us to the publication of a report from within Massachusetts General Hospital, "Declining to Provide or Continue...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Reducing mortality rates in hospitals: Good. Tying reductions to executive comp: Bad

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Becker's Healthcare  reports ( June 21, 2023 ) that clinicians at various HCA facilities are pressured to refer patients to palliative c...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

New study endorses harvesting hearts after declaration of cardiopulmonary death

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There's an Associated Press article in this morning's Dallas Morning News  describing a multicenter study involving the transplanta...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

The High Costs of Non-Beneficial Treatments in the ICU

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Thad Pope has a useful post on this subject. There are direct medical costs (estimated at $2,700/day (Ottawa study) to $4,000/day (UCLA stu...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccination and Ethics: Stanford/AJOB Webinar

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The American Journal of Bioethics  and Stanford's Center for Biomedical Ethics (David Magnus & Bela Fishbeyn) on Feb. 16 put on an e...