Bill of Health
JUNE 13, 2022
As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. By Leah Pierson. I recently argued that we need to evaluate medical school ethics curricula.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Others have focused on a variety of goals, from increasing students’ awareness of ethical issues , to learning fundamental concepts in bioethics , to instilling certain virtues. By Leah Pierson. Health professions students are often required to complete training in ethics.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 22, 2022
This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. Because twice, doctors told members of my family that due to brain injury, I was about to die. The other doctors and therapists told me I was brain damaged, and that everyone knows the brain cannot heal.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 31, 2022
The story of Henrietta Lacks is surely among the most famous in the history of bioethics, and its facts are well-known. After conducting a biopsy on her tumor, her doctors learned that her cancer cells reproduced uniquely effectively. By James Toomey.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 11, 2022
Health systems should also be built upon a basic set of guidelines and principles, made through legislation or legally enforceable guidance documents, that ensure ethical doctor and patient relationships in medical decision-making and treatment. By Luciano Bottini Filho.
Bill of Health
MARCH 8, 2023
In 2019, a Chinese court found that Dr. He and his collaborators had “ forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into unknowingly implanting gene-edited embryos into two women ” in deliberate violation of national regulations on biomedical research and medical ethics.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
By Zainab Ahmed. In an era of mass suffering, some still suffer more than others. What’s worse, there is nothing natural about it. It is human made.
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Death” by some — has made it his mission to “ demedicalize death ” by removing doctors from the process of assisted suicide and bringing suicide devices directly into the hands of individuals seeking to end their own lives. By Matthew Chun.
Bill of Health
MARCH 9, 2022
She teaches Psychedelic Bioethics at The Ohio State University, and she previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. By Ne?e
Bill of Health
AUGUST 1, 2022
A line between bodily autonomy and state’s rights, a line between the doctor-patient relationship and the law. In a post- Roe world, we are forcing doctors to practice non-evidence based medicine without any room for recourse. By Samantha DeAndrade.
Bill of Health
MAY 17, 2022
In their pediatricians’ offices, they will not be able to receive validating treatment or even have frank discussions with their doctors, even if their doctors want to support them. Her areas of interest include health equity, bioethics, and patient-centered clinical care.
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. “Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Before the coronavirus emerged, the top causes of death in developed countries were heart disease, cancers, diabetes, and accidents. Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
One is the philosophical principle of autonomy, which I regularly teach in my bioethics class. Some doctors thought I would have to spend my life in a rehabilitation unit, learning to think again, but never fully recovering. There I met an excellent doctor who told me I could recover.
Health Populi
JULY 27, 2022
From consumers’ homes and workplaces and running routes to the research bench, doctor’s offices, and hospital beds, this graphic from the report illustrates scenarios of Apple’s research flows.
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2019
Your first dip into his wisdom should be “A Doctor’s Touch,” his TED talk from 2011 with over 1.5 Ultimately, we want our doctors to know, “what we live for and would die for,” Dr. V concludes his forward. This is obviously important as doctors grow to count on AI in medicine with a systems perspective on human health.
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Ineffective communication can lead not only to medical discrimination by doctors, but also lower rates of testing, vaccination, and treatment efforts by patients. . Bioethics HIV/AIDS Katie Gu Public Health Social Determinants of Health anti-discrimination Diagnostics monkeypox
Bill of Health
JANUARY 26, 2023
is a visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. By Gregory Curfman Affirmative action in higher education may soon be abolished by the Supreme Court, resulting from its review of Students for Fair Admissions v.
Bill of Health
APRIL 12, 2022
The agent can be informal, such as a spouse or caregiver, or legally bound as a fiduciary, such as a doctor. Adrian Gropper Bioethics Health Law Policy Human Rights Medical Privacy health law policy PrivacyBy Adrian Gropper.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 24, 2019
is a distinct negative outlier,” the doctor noted, pointing to the detailed data from the OECD published in The Economist. What can going deep in medicine do for health systems, health care, doctors and patients? “Bold thinking is great. Bold doing is better,” Dr. Eric Topol introduced his talk yesterday at Medecision’s Liberation 2019 conference.
Health Populi
MARCH 2, 2021
Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies.
Health Populi
JULY 7, 2022
My doctor, My employer, and My friends and family , Edelman recommends. The most trusted institutions in the U.S. are small business and the military, the only two sectors in which a majority of Americans have confidence.
Health Populi
AUGUST 13, 2021
What is the doctor of the future? What should doctor’s and nurse’s competencies be ten years from now?” “We don’t un-learn,” Dr. Amy Abernethy asserte d as she shared her pandemic perspectives on a panel with 2 other former U.S.
Health Populi
AUGUST 28, 2020
The most-trusted parties people trust with their personal health information are doctors’ offices (86%), health insurers (75%), and medical researchers (72%), seen as the top health data stewards in the U.S. In the COVID-19 era, most U.S.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Dr. Osler had been a strong advocate for the physician-patient conversation to inform the doctor’s diagnostic acumen and improve patient outcomes. “Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis,” Dr. William Osler is quoted to have said around the turn of the 20th century. This year is the centennial of Dr. Osler’s passing, so it’s especially timely that I introduce this post with his legendary assertion in the context of kicking off the 2019 Medecision Liberation conference.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
” They’re doctors, dietitians, environmental scientists and health specialists…people who apply the science to their work. Using doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and other health practitioners in that education will be one tactic that can help bolster genetics literacy.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Some of the long list includes AT&T, AdvaMed, Amazon, and the ATA (formerly known as the American Telemedicine Association), Brookings, Doctor on Demand, Fitbit, Google, Humana, Mercedes, Microsoft, Philips, Validic and Verizon, among others.
Health Populi
JANUARY 18, 2021
The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Allen said ahead of the conference that she wanted to bring her expertise in law and bioethics to bear on problems of great concern to healthcare and technology and would focus her discussion on data exchange and patient privacy.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
And, according to the WSJ reporting, “Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. What will the impact of health care providers working with tech companies on data-driven programs like Project Nightingale on the nature of patients’ trust with hospitals and doctors, versus tech companies?
Health Populi
JANUARY 9, 2020
In 2019, people in America ranked the most honest and ethical occupations in the nation as nurses (#1 for the 18th year in a row), pharmacists and doctors (along with engineers) in this annual Gallup Poll. There’s less talk about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency at #CES2020.
Health Populi
JULY 1, 2019
You go, the doctor writes stuff down with a pen in your file, end of story. By Susannah Fox, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and Lisa Suennen. I’ve lived long enough to have learned. The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned. But that won’t happen to us. Cause it’s always been a matter of trust . A Matter of Trust, by Billy Joel.
Health Populi
APRIL 10, 2020
In this moment, doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists, and peer clinicians on their teams, are fighting hard to save all C19 patients on COVID wards and in ICUs, in field hospitals and nursing homes.
Bill of Health
APRIL 26, 2022
To navigate the myriad interests and stakes involved in creating federal psychedelic policy, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School convened a virtual panel discussion with three leading psychedelic policy advocates. By James R. Jolin.
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2019
The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. Article #3 in my deep dive here extends the second analysis into digital health information, next focusing on Americans’ use of quality information on doctors. “Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
333 
Let's personalize your content