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Individuals Declared Brain-Dead Remain Biologically Alive
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Do New York State’s Ventilator Allocation Guidelines Place Chronic Ventilator Users at Risk? Clarification Needed
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Confronting Disability Discrimination During the Pandemic
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAs hospitals and public health authorities devise triage protocols to allocate scarce critical-care resources during the Covid-19 pandemic, people with disabilities are expressing alarm that these protocols devalue them and exacerbate long-entrenched ableism in health care. Lawsuits alleging disability discrimination in have been filed in Washington and Alabama. The U.S. Office for Civil Rights is investigating disability discrimination complaints in triage protocols. The challenge is to develop protocols that will minimize discrimination in the health care system.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Physician-Assisted Death and Journalism Ethics
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Is Medical Aid in Dying a Human Right?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe Kings County Medical Society in New York recently hosted a brunch with New York State legislators. One of the guests was Richard Gottfried, chair of the New York State Assembly Health Committee, who is cosponsoring A2694, a bill legalizing medical aid in dying (MAID). As a medical oncologist with 30 years’ experience treating seriously ill patients, I have concerns about it, and I expressed them to Gottfried.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Live-Tweeting About Dying: Last Lessons from Kathy Brandt
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayKathy Brandt, a leader in the hospice and palliative care movement in the United States, died on August 4. She was 53 and had been diagnosed with a rare, highly aggressive form of ovarian cancer in January. Brandt and her wife regularly posted on social media about their family's end-of-life experiences.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Religion, Suffering, and the Physician’s Role
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Should Feeling Tired of Life Be Grounds for Euthanasia?
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What Dr. Seuss Saw at the Golden Years Clinic
Read the PostBioethics Forum Essay“Improving patient experience” has become the mantra of many health care facilities in a highly competitive and regulated environment. But just what is it about the patient experience that needs to be improved? Will better food and gift bags do the trick? Or are more basic changes required?Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Ethical Perspectives on Advance Directives for Dementia
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayFour articles in the Hastings Center Report make an array of claims about whether advance directives should or should not be used to instruct caregivers to withhold oral feeding of a person who reaches a designated stage of dementia. I would like to advance some central ethical observations on th...Read the Post
Chronic Conditions and End of Life Care
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