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>Medical Ethics and the Holocaust Lecture Series
>The Holocaust Museum of Houston and the University of Texas at Houston are sponsoring a lecture series, “Medical Ethics and the Holocaust.” I’m not sure of the procedure, but there is information at the website on watching the lectures, live, on the Internet.
Summary of Forensics Reports from New Orleans Hospital
The link to the experts’ reports in the case against Dr. Pou has been published by CNN. I was worried that I was just reacting in defense of a fellow doctor, so I spent quite a bit of time reviewing and typing up a summary, in order to get as much of the case as … Continue reading
“Living Life’s End”
The title is from a 2005 essay by Gilbert Meilaender in First Things. Not surprisingly, Dr. Meilaender speaks with much more clarity than I ever could in discussing the sort of dilemma that we face when considering the baby, Emilio Gonzales, and the treatment vs. the care he is to receive from his doctors, his … Continue reading
Leigh’s Disease (Long post on end of life and baby Emilio Gonzales)
(EDIT, May 31, 2014: It has come to my attention that this post is referenced in a book on bioethics. If you have come from that book, remember that (although I’ve done my best to be accurate) this is a blog, not a peer-reviewed scientific article. Be sure and read all the comments at the … Continue reading
“Back Alley Death” (“Physician Assisted Suicide” )
Oregon and Vermont – extremes on the map and extremes on medical ethics. But this is the first time that I’ve heard that doctors should give patients a deadly prescription to prevent a “back alley” death. How many of us really want our Family Doctor to be proficient in killing? Or, in over-riding his or … Continue reading
Debate On Ethics
After several days of discussion about a baby that Texas lawyer Jerri Ward asked Wesley Smith to blog about on Secondhand Smoke, I have been asked “How can you be a doctor and not know this about what passes for ethics nowadays?” Because I have a different understanding “about what passes for ethics nowadays.” I … Continue reading
There’s (Still) No “Futile Care Act” in Texas
I keep running across news articles like this one in the Dallas Morning News (free subscription required) which claim that Texas has some sort of “futile care” law. There is no such thing as a “Futile Care Law” in Texas and never has been. (Previous LifeEthics posts include several in April, 2006.) There is a … Continue reading
Bad, Bad Doctors (Religious, with Consciences)
The NEJM has a free on line article evaluating the results of a survey of doctors, “Religion, Conscience and Controversial Clinical Practices,” which is a perfect example that far too much of the effort of “medical ethics” or “bioethics,” goes into deciding who can be killed. “In recent years, several states have passed laws that … Continue reading
>UK survey: doctors should probably kill patients
>The British Social Attitudes Survey is being reported in UK papers today as “4 out of 5” and 80% of respondents feel that a doctor should be able to kill patients requesting to be killed and who are going to die anyway. The support for killing goes down if the patient is not likely to … Continue reading
>Hypothetical end of life dilemma
>Suppose there was a patient, Mr. B., with adenocarcinoma, a fast growing malignancy that begins in the liver, the pancreas, or another intestinal organ. Although the patient has lived twice the predicted 3 month life expectancy, the cancer has finally spread throughout the body – to the liver, the lungs, the intestines, and, now, the … Continue reading
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