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>Choosing Tomorrow Today
>Go read Nigel Cameron’s Choosing Tomorrow, today! (I can’t resist red buttons marked “push” or puns.) I’ve been writing a piece on “Public Health Ethics,” part of which I dredged up for my comment on this remark of Dr. Cameron’s, “Bioethics” is an optical illusion. Which is not to say that we don’t need IRBs … Continue reading
>Biologist’s review of Dawkin’s The God Delusion
>There’s an excellent review of Richard Dawkin’s book (here’s my comments from last October, “Measuring a Universe Without God,” when Dawkins was selling his book on NPR’s The Talk of the Nation and other media), with answers to many of his near-points free online at the New York Review of Books website. I hadn’t heard … Continue reading
>Happy New Year, Here’s a New Resource
>I hope that everyone is ready to hit the ground running as business resumes this week. (I know – some people have been running all along, while I took a couple of weeks to give my husband shots of blood thinner and to learn a brand new hate for support hose, all due to Mr. … 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
Medicare fees tied to reporting
“Pay for Performance” (P4P, sometimes called “Pay for Play” by some of us who aren’t fond of the scheme) just got a huge boost from Congress. Expect to see more docs carrying computers equipped to run an “electronic medical record” (EMR) around the office. And don’t be surprised to see more solo and small group … Continue reading
>Agreement: no euthanasia for children
>Art Caplan, the pseudoeditor at blog.bioethics.net, head of the Center for Bioethics at Pennsylvania University, and a columnist for MSNBC, has posted a note at the bioethics.net blog that calls for an end of the suggestion that sick babies should be killed by their doctors. Good going, Art!
Can you study medical ethics?
I’m still working on my article on age at marriage and sexual initiation changes. I’m trying to learn to post the graphics that I think are useful. Preview, tweak, delete. In the meantime, what about all the docs and student docs who are learning how to treat patients ethically? Deleting their mistakes is not an … Continue reading
Ongoing discussion: science vs. religion
CBS’ Blogophile, Melissa P. McNamara, has summarized the blogosphere comments on the Beyond Belief seminar, quoting LifeEthics and other wise and level heads (grin) (even if she did misspell my name): Religion and science are not mutually exclusive, some suggest. “If you ask me … a rational universe that is subject to measurements and study … Continue reading
>UK: Teaching children how to use condoms no help
>This month, the British Medical Journal (sorry, subscription only) has published a report on a randomized controlled study on enhanced sex ed that failed to reduce the numbers of pregnancies or abortions in teen girls. Essentially, the “programme” involves education for boys and girls 13 to 15 years old, including teaching them to obtain and … Continue reading
Parachutes, Abstinence, Randomized Controlled Studies
There have never been any controlled randomized trials on “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge,” according to this review published in the British Medical Journal in December 2003. And yet, in the nearly 3 years since it was documented in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal that the evidence supporting the … Continue reading
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