Matthew WyniaPosts by Matthew WyniaBioethics Forum EssayShould Covid Vaccination Status Be Used to Make Triage Decisions?As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to strain health systems’ capacity to provide adequate care for critically ill patients, should patients’ vaccination status be considered in making triage decisions? This question sparked debate recently after the leak of an internal memo of the North Texas Mass Critical Care Guideline Task Force that proposed using patients’ Covid-19 vaccination status as a factor to assign intensive care beds.Read Should Covid Vaccination Status Be Used to Make Triage Decisions?Bioethics Forum EssayStaying in Their Lane: Health Professionals Must Address Gun ViolenceIn the wake of the recent Twitter fight between the National Rifle Association and U.S. physician groups over whether doctors should speak out about firearm policy issues, we argue that...Read Staying in Their Lane: Health Professionals Must Address Gun ViolenceRelated Posts 2022 — A Year of ResultsIn the early days of 2022, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a dying 57-year-old man, a medical first. Hastings Center research scholar Karen Maschke cautioned against rushing into animal-to-human...Read 2022 — A Year of ResultsSPECIAL EVENTPatient Harms and Professional Obligations after DobbsA Hastings Conversation November 18 The Dobbs decision is imposing confusion and risking the health and safety of pregnant patients in states where abortion has been banned. Physicians are asking...Read Patient Harms and Professional Obligations after DobbsEventPatient Harms and Professional Obligations after DobbsThe Dobbs decision is imposing confusion and risking the health and safety of pregnant patients in states where abortion has been banned. Physicians are asking what to do. Is the...Read Patient Harms and Professional Obligations after DobbsHastings Center NewsCrisis Standards of Care: New in the Hastings Center ReportAs Covid spreads and leaves intensive care units at or near capacity in several states, some regions have approved crisis standards of care, which involve health care rationing. The latest...Read Crisis Standards of Care: New in the Hastings Center Report New in the Hastings Center Report: Crisis Standards of Care, September-October 2021 issuePress release HCR September-October 2021 LH New in the Hastings Center Report: Crisis Standards of Care, September-October 2021 issue As Covid spreads and leaves intensive care units at or near capacity...Read New in the Hastings Center Report: Crisis Standards of Care, September-October 2021 issue The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline“Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though...Read The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline ScheduleClick on a date to see its schedule.Read Schedule FacultyBiographies are alphabetical by last name. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv Research Scholar, Director of Visiting Scholar Program, The Hastings Center Art Caplan, PhD Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of...Read Faculty
