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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

Bill of Health

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs.

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A Novel Approach to Crisis Standards of Care

Bill of Health

This, however, is fairly complicated, as there is no concrete definition of what defines futile care. For COVID-19 related interventions, this could be based on the potential for harm, and/or lack of efficacy in a given clinical scenario. Contraindications are scenarios in which certain interventions are not recommended.

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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

Health Populi

The definition of medical gaslighting offered by the American Journal of Medicine is that it’s derived from the term “‘gaslighting,’ when an individual is manipulated into questioning their own perception.” Next consider the viral spread of medical misinformation, accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. He kicked off his lessons focusing in on a theme that would resonate with the HIMSS audience: “COVID changed our relationship with technology forever.”. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S.,

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What to Know About Gene Therapy

HIT Consultant

When new techniques are developed, bioethics is always present to evaluate the procedure’s hazards and moral ramifications. Ethical Issues in Gene Therapy. The idea of genetically altering genes has long been the subject of contentious debate in the scientific community.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Jane Sarashon

” An additional definition of the verb is, “ to feel or exhibit anger or revulsion.” The book’s many examples of citizen scientists spans at least forty years, and even features very current insights into Long COVID and the use of TikTok in patient communities.

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A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)

Bill of Health

moved to change the definition of fully vaccinated to include boosters, but the White House has not suggested this yet. hit the hardest by COVID (largely the South, at that point) would not want to use tests. Some other countries, and some private institutions in the U.S., When Omicron first hit the U.S.,