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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

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However, having a right to health may be insufficient, on its own, to enforce adequate regulations and ethical principles to develop a health system which respects patient autonomy and their individual values and preferences.

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303 Creative, Transgender Rights, and the Ongoing Culture Wars

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face challenges in court, the legal, public health, medical, and bioethics communities have an essential role to play both in properly framing the legal issue, as well as explaining what is truly at stake in these cases to minimize the chances of similarly harmful rulings for the transgender community moving forward.

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Key Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

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Two people may experience identical levels of pain, but one may indicate that it is severe while the other indicates it is mild because she tends to avoid complaining or does not want to disappoint the doctor by relating that treatment is unsuccessful. Health Pol’y, Law, and Ethics 1 (2023). Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Bill of Health

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.

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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

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Representation, in so many modes, plays a huge role in how we get sorted and understood — how we are read by therapists, by doctors, by researchers, by gamers, and by the world more generally. These representations shape our lives.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

Also, check out the following links for more on Susannah’s journey into Rebel Health — STAT Q&A: A scholar of the patient “revolution” tracks the arc from powerlessness to influence Harvard Public Health magazine Q&A: The patient-led care revolution and follow #RebelHealth on your social channels.

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What the Supreme Court’s Expected Ruling on Affirmative Action Might Mean for US Health Care

Bill of Health

is a visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. The post What the Supreme Court’s Expected Ruling on Affirmative Action Might Mean for US Health Care appeared first on Bill of Health. Gregory Curfman , M.D.

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