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Patient Modesty: Volume 57 26 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Humility and Humiliation: Continuing on with the patient modesty discussion, there is the suggestion that a bit more humility in the medical system might mitigate against patient humiliation. But to ...
Death With Dignity Should Not Be Equated With Physician Assisted Suicide 26 Aug 2013 | 07:39 pm
In 2008, the state legislature of Washington passed what was called the Death with Dignity Act, a law that legalized physician assisted suicide. Under the law, terminally ill patients (predicted to h...
How “Vague” Writing Can Be Powerful: A Lesson from Abe Lincoln 23 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
In his wonderful 1992 book – Lincoln at Gettysburg – Gary Wills explains that one of the reasons the Gettysburg address was so powerful is that Lincoln did not use any proper names – that’s right any ...
Privacy for Sale 23 Aug 2013 | 10:57 am
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. How much is your privacy worth? Would you be willing to give up your rights to medical privacy for $50? The company CVS Caremark is betting that you would. Earlier this year, ...
Open the mail, see cancer doctors say they must control costs 23 Aug 2013 | 06:18 am
The drumbeat is growing among prominent, thoughtful cancer physicians to the effect that they are not only concerned about the costs of the care they give, but that they must be more active in reducin...
Do Cigarette Taxes Work? 22 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
Here is a nice picture, from the Wonkblog, summarizing the best evidence to date on whether cigarette taxes reduce smoking. The bottom line here is that cigarette taxes slightly reduce smoking among s...
Victim’s DNAR Order Does Not Break Causation 22 Aug 2013 | 05:34 am
I blogged about the Eddie Cortez Smith case when it was before the intermediate appellate court in Minnesota last Fall. That court rejected a drunken driver's claim that he was not responsible for th...
Before Anesthesia 21 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
In an article from the Atlantic last January, Joshua Lang wrote a wonderful article about the challenge of deciding whether surgical anesthesia actually makes people unconscious, or whether people rem...
New Yorker Article on Medical Decision-Making 21 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
Here is a link to a New Yorker website article, exploring the challenges of helping patients understand their medical decisions. The author, a physician, makes mention of some of my research. But that...
Discussion Highlights on Neuroscience and Related Ethical Issues 20 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
In a roundtable discussion, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (the Bioethics Commission) today discussed the ethical issues related to neuroscience research, as a part of ...
