Bioethics Forum Essay
The Other July Effect: Tribalism in Medicine
Every summer, our household lives through “the July effect.” The mate, an internist, spends extra time at teaching rounds with his brand new residents, hoping they will beat the odds...Hastings Center News
Hastings Center Scholars Respond to Prison Sentence of Researcher Who Created First Gene-Edited Babies
The Compassionate Use Advisory Committee, headed by Hastings Center Fellow Arthur Caplan, of NYU Langone, received the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration’s Innovation Award. The committee was recognized for transforming how expanded access requests, also known as compassionate use requests, are granted by drug developers.Bioethics Forum Essay
Amid the Pandemic and Racial Injustice, Greater Empathy in Medical School
Empathy does not need to dissipate as we endure medical training. Both the pandemic and the national reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality have touched every aspect of life as we know it, and medical training and education have been no exception.Read “Amid the Pandemic and Racial Injustice, Greater Empathy in Medical School”
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Protecting Communities from Covid-19
FOUR STEPS TO PROTECT COMMUNITIES FROM COVID-19 AND RESTORE THE ECONOMY The Hastings Center, the oldest independent, nonpartisan research institute in the world focused on social and ethical issues in...Bioethics Forum Essay
Omicron, the Legacy of Renée Fox, and the Uncertain Practice of Medicine
Like the pandemic, uncertainty, growing confidence, and the return of doubt come in waves. The Omicron variant is just the latest twist in this plot.Read “Omicron, the Legacy of Renée Fox, and the Uncertain Practice of Medicine”
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Overcoming Ableism in Medical and Nursing Education
Co-Principal Investigators: Erik Parens, Liz Bowen Investigator: Mildred Solomon Funder: The Macy Foundation Equitable health care for all is a bioethical imperative. And discrimination against people with disabilities—ableism—stands in the...Hastings Center News
Overcoming Ableism in Medical and Nursing Education
Equitable health care for all is a bioethical imperative. And discrimination against people with disabilities—ableism—stands in the way of fulfilling that imperative. A new Hastings Center project constitutes the first...Bioethics Forum Essay
Conscientious Objection and Abortion: Medical Students’ Perspective
Despite the medical necessity of the abortion, it was delayed and rescheduled twice that day because individual anesthesiologists, technicians, and nurses did not want to be involved in, what several called, “this kind of procedure.”Read “Conscientious Objection and Abortion: Medical Students’ Perspective”
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Anti-Ableist Medical Education: Meeting the Challenges
Despite increasing attention to the harms of ableism in health care and among health care providers, few institutions have made significant changes to the ways medical students and trainees are...Read “Anti-Ableist Medical Education: Meeting the Challenges”