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A healthcare system can perform well without always caring, well. Safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity are legitimate goals of healthcare. But achieving them does not necessarily mean that good care has occurred.
Consider a hypothetical patient in an intensive care unit whose health is improving and who has met the hospital’s criteria for transfer...
Recently, two very different but equally thought-provoking articles were published within a day of each other on the Bioethics Today blog. After reading both, I found they were like two sides of the same coin when thinking about disability ethics.
In early August, an Alaska woman named McKenna West was serving as a gestational surrogate for a Los Angeles couple when a prenatal diagnosis revealed the fetus had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious but treatable congenital heart defect. According to
When Psychiatry Fails Women: Lessons from the Lindsay Clancy Trial
Lindsay Clancy is a former labor and delivery nurse who is on trial for the January 24, 2023 strangulation deaths of her three children. Clancy did not have a documented significant psychiatric history, but over a four-month period at the end of 2022, she develope...
As individuals concerned with ethics in science, medicine, and public health, we wish to express our dismay at the approach taken by Senate leaders to pursue an unwarranted, ill-advised, and frankly bizarre vendetta against a scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, rather than making a sincere effort to learn from the painful experiences of the pandemic to improve national prepared...