Lainie Friedman RossPosts by Lainie Friedman RossBioethics Forum EssayVaccine Mandates for Kids: It’s Not Whether, But WhenStates and school boards around the country are engaged in a debate about whether to require middle and high school students to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The debate is not so much about whether to mandate. It's when to do so.Read Vaccine Mandates for Kids: It’s Not Whether, But WhenBioethics Forum EssayResponding to Ebola: Health Care Professionals’ Obligations to Provide CareAs health care institutions in the United States prepare for Ebola patients, many have adopted the policy that those providing hands-on care should come from a pool of volunteers. Given...Read Responding to Ebola: Health Care Professionals’ Obligations to Provide CareRelated PostsBioethics Forum EssayChatGPT Just Makes Stuff Up: A Conversation on a Controversial TopicI am currently writing up the results of a retrospective chart review of patients’ consent or refusal for medical students to perform pelvic exams on them when they’re under anesthesia and sedated. I asked ChatGPT to summarize the ethical issues and tell me what sources it used to generate its response.Read ChatGPT Just Makes Stuff Up: A Conversation on a Controversial Topic SUPPORTING INFORMATIONMark Schlesinger and Rachel Grob, “When Mistakes Multiply: How Inadequate Responses to Medical Mishaps Erode Trust in American Medicine,” in “Time to Rebuild: Essays on Trust in Health Care andScience,”...Read SUPPORTING INFORMATION What Does “Dead” Mean?Edited by Robert D. Truog, Nancy Berlinger, Rachel L. Zacharias, and Mildred Z. Solomon Should death be defined in strictly biological terms — as the body’s failure to maintain integrated functioning...Read What Does “Dead” Mean?IRB: Ethics & Human ResearchClear Recommendations to Reform Pediatric ResearchIn Children in Medical Research: Access Versus Protection, Lainie Friedman Ross presents a number of recommendations to increase protections for the vulnerable pediatric population—even if achieving this goal comes at the...Read Clear Recommendations to Reform Pediatric Research FellowsHastings Center Fellows are an elected group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and/or public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences...Read Fellows