>The Christian Medical and Dental Association has a weekly newsletter that can be read without subscription on line. The content changes each week. This week there are two of the three topics that I’d like to point out. The first is the article on conscience in medicine and CMDA’s policy on the actions of our … Continue reading
It’s not grey goo, and no one is sure what’s going on, but we have our first recall of a commercialized nanotech product. Wonder what the ethics board will say? From the Washington Post: At least 77 people reported severe respiratory problems over a one-week period at the end of March — including six who … Continue reading
>It’s not grey goo, and no one is sure what’s going on, but we have our first recall of a commercialized nanotech product. Wonder what the ethics board will say? From the Washington Post: At least 77 people reported severe respiratory problems over a one-week period at the end of March — including six who … Continue reading
The Austin American Statesman has an article in Wednesday’s paper on the unwise words of the herpetologist at the University of Texas (Austin), which included suggesting the specific virus needed to eliminate 9 out of 10 humans on earth. As a sort of defense (equally unwise, in my opinion) one of the lizard man’s UTAustin … Continue reading
>The Austin American Statesman has an article in Wednesday’s paper on the unwise words of the herpetologist at the University of Texas (Austin), which included suggesting the specific virus needed to eliminate 9 out of 10 humans on earth. As a sort of defense (equally unwise, in my opinion) one of the lizard man’s UTAustin … Continue reading
From a fellow family physician, more reasons to avoid expanding centralized, government insurance: The Joke’s On Us as ALWAYS!Remember that 4.4% Fee Schedule Reduction we had to start the year from Medicare?Remember we were given that back through all the efforts of the AMA and AAFP?Forget about the fact that the fee reductions are going … Continue reading
Brent Bozell has long been a critic of the old mainstream media, with his Media Research Center. Today, he has a column on Townhall.comin which he examines the bias of the Washington Post when it comes to coverage of the personalities on either side of the abortion debate. I recommend both a daily check on … Continue reading
It has long been possible to observe very premature babies pull away from painful stimuli and react physically as though they were in pain by crying, showing faster pulses and breathing rates and even changes in their blood hormone levels that mimic pain response in older human beings. But that pain has been dismissed as … Continue reading
Recently, this blog mentioned the advocacy of “death with dignity” for all humans who desire the help of physicians and modern medicine in their quest for self-induced death. But, there’s a worse ethical position, one I thought had died out (excuse the pun). Eric Pianka, Ph.D, a tenured professor in the Integrative Biology department of … Continue reading
>No technical difficulties, just attendance at Trinity International University’s Master of Arts in Bioethics. This week marked the last of my classes. The program can be taken as an “executive” course, similar to many of the Master’s of Business Administration courses which are attended in a couple of blocks of a few days at a … Continue reading